“Major Metzger vanished in civilian clothes while on an off-duty shopping trip with co-workers at a department store in central Bishkek.”–New York Times
This is the most disturbing line from the Times story about the 3-day-abduction of an Air Force Major for whom the military is conducting an investigation. I had felt a twinge of jingoism–not […]
Photo Credits: (Bush) Eric Draper–White House (from Washington Post)
(Blairs): splashnews.com (found in the Daily Mail)
“All hands on deck
10:08am 14th August 2006
As thousands of British families suffered the continuing misery of delayed and cancelled holidays, the Blairs were enjoying theirs in the indigo waters of the Grenadine Islands 4,000 miles away.”
Please find the entire story here.
Karaoke trains to the roof of world
Thu May 18, 8:50 AM ET
Ticket to Tibet, sir? That’ll be $1,000 a day. But at least you’ll be able to have a good sing on the way.
China is planning to offer luxury trains to the roof of the world when it opens a long anticipated and highly […]
May 18, 2006
Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested
By NICHOLAS WADE
The split between the human and chimpanzee lineages, a pivotal event in human evolution, may have occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may not have been as clean as humans might like.
A new comparison of the human […]
World’s largest cruise ship docks
By Luke MacGregor Sat Apr 29, 8:42 AM ET
SOUTHAMPTON (Reuters) - The world’s largest cruise ship docked in England on Saturday ahead of its inaugural trip — a floating behemoth four times the size of the Titanic, with facilities never imagined at the dawn of the liner age.
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April 25, 2006
One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand
By CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT
The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?
A lot more, it turns out, especially if an idea still in the early stage should catch on: […]
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Hideaki Motoyama, project leader of the National Institute of Polar Research,
holds a million-year-old ice sample in Tokyo April 18, 2006. (Toru Hanai/Reuters)
LONELY PLANET and ROUGH travel guides join to discourage ‘casual flying’.
Their books will carry warnings.