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• 'EU eyeing advanced travel security system (UPI)
The European Union is considering adopting a more advanced travel security system that potentially could include electronic screening of passengers.
• 'Steppes Travel Announces Its Christmas Special Offers for 2007 (PR.com)
Steppes travel (http://www.steppestravel.co.uk) is pleased to announce its Christmas Special Offers for 2007. Steppes travel is pleased to announce that not only are they able to offer Economy Class Virgin flights from Heathrow to Mauritius but also this Christmas they are offering free flights (including taxes) for one child (under 12) travelling with a minimum of two adults. This offer applies ...
• 'A New Airfare Comparison Travel Website And Travel Forum (KTHV Little Rock)
NEW YORK (AP) -- There's a new Web site for air travelers looking for bargains. Tripmama.com combines the top travel Web sites on one page, making airfare comparison as simple as one click.
• 'Adventure travel for families snowballs (USA Today)
Melanie McQuaig smiles as she watches a dozen children playing amid the wildflowers in the distance. Among them are her two girls, ages 6 and 11, who should be tired after hiking nearly 4 miles up a narrow mountain trail to this glorious lunch spot a remote subalpine meadow flanked by towering peaks. And yet the girls don't even seem winded.
• 'Scientist: Time travel not impossible (UPI)
Time travel is possible despite many physicists? doubts, a prominent theorist says.
• 'Starwood signs Travel Channel deal (BizJournals)
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, which manages properties on all five major Hawaiian Islands, announced Wednesday it has signed a two-year strategic marketing partnership with the Travel Channel.
• 'Car Uses Space Shuttle Fuel, Can Travel 125 Miles Per Gallon (WKMG Local6.com via Yahoo! News)
A first-ever liquid hydrogen-powered luxury sedan tested by NASA at Kennedy Space Center this week can travel up to 125 miles before needing a fill up. PHOTOS: Images Of Car The new BMW Hydrogen 7 sedan uses the same fuel powering the space shuttle to reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent, according to a news release.
• 'Stingers get feel for one another; Travel baseball team winning in first year (Delaware State News)
FELTON ? Only three weekends into the official start of the Stingers season, the 16U travel baseballl team has already established an identity as a winning team and force to be reckoned with in any tournament it plays.
• 'Sumo: Asashoryu can't travel to Mongolia: elder Takasago (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News)
_ Suspension-hit Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu will not be granted permission to travel to his homeland, his stable elder Takasago said Thursday.
• 'Qantas stops playing fare with travel agents (Crikey)
Qantas has sunk its claws into the fat cats. How? With a small change to the fare paying practices of the corporate travel firms that manage business accounts. Ben Sandilands reports.

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