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- Airline delays among worst ever in 2007
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Flights in the U.S. were late more than 26 percent of the time last year, a slightly better performance than in 2000, when airlines were tardy 27.4 percent of the time. The federal government began collecting airlines on-time data in 1995.
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- The world's most extravagant trips
  Posted by DrupalLogin from MSNBC
  Pretty interesting list of trips the super wealthy are planning to make. Make those Bush tax cuts permanent?
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- Enough of the Hills and Woods, Can I Send Grandma an E-Card?
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  I like this article for taking on the entitlement of air travel and social networks like Facebook all in one swoop.
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- Making Travel More Ethical
  Posted by Shemuses from World Changing
  As someone who travels a fair amount, I want to stay in hotels that treat their workers well, pay them a decent wage, and don’t prevent them from organizing. I'm also acutely aware that the vast majority of hospitality workers, and virtually all hotel housekeepers, are women. Here are a few things I didn't know (and that you may not be aware of, either).
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- canada.com [Times Colonist, Victoria]: B.C. to offer 'passport' driver's licence
  Posted by Jwgardner from Canada
  The B.C. government hopes to soon offer an enhanced driver's licence that would serve as a cheaper, more convenient alternative to a passport for land or sea travel to the U.S.
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- Sex on a plane? Not if airline can help it
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The carrier said it would ask passengers on the A380 to refrain from sex while ensconced in one of its 12 first-class suites, which boast the world's first airborne double beds. Clearly, the airlines want to keep their monopoly on screwing you when you fly!
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- A Canadian fishing for stories (and her heart) in the Balkans
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  Three years ago, a pair of Croatian eyes transformed my curiosity about the former Yugoslavia into a real fascination. These dark eyes of a man laughed and cried at the same time, for they had seen human cruelty during the war but had also lived during the golden age of the former Yugoslavia...
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Wealthy people are increasingly paying for friends to accompany them on vacation

I think I’ll go to Kenya! Anyone want to go? Oh, sorry – no more room.

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11:33 pm 10/26/06

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Jeff
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