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• 'TRAVEL: Give the gift of a getaway (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
What : A shark-diving experience on a five-day boat expedition. How: You and 15 others will travel by chartered bus to Mexico and then take a luxury yacht to explore Isla de Guadalupe, which has one of the largest populations of great white sharks on the planet.
• 'Bad weather disrupts SW travel (BBC News)
Heavy rain and storm force winds disrupts rail and road travel in the south-west of England.
• 'Notes: Seahawks amend their travel plans to Philly (Seattle Times)
The Seahawks would normally leave for an East Coast game two days early, but travel for this Monday night's game at Philadelphia will be...
• 'Nigeria Travel Warning (Kansas City InfoZine)
This Travel Warning for Nigeria is being issued to address increasing crime in Lagos, as well as unrest in the Delta region. The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens of the dangers of travel to the country. This Travel Warning supersedes the Travel Warning issued May 20, 2005.
• 'Great Games for Holiday Travel (BellaOnline)
One of the most difficult tasks facing parents around the holiday season is traveling with kids. The majority of families with children will be forced to face some travel this season, whether it's to an Aunt's house the next town over, or across the country on a plane to Grandma's.
• 'Internet 'will kill off a third of travel agents' (The Observer)
Internet bookings will force a third of all travel agents to close within a decade, according to the man who used to run Lunn Poly, Britain's largest chain of agents.
• 'A very important pile of travel agents (Vail Daily)
"A tree is a plant that remains in one spot for 100 years, then suddenly jumps in front of a beginning skier." I was working with a very small ski school in Austria when a group of VIP Israeli travel agents came into town.
• 'Bedbug boom blamed on increased foreign travel (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News)
Bedbugs, the houseguests nobody wants, are back in growing numbers across the USA. Sixty years after near-eradication, the little bloodsuckers are infesting homes and hotels from New York to San Diego. Why the outbreak? Increased world travel and changing pest-control practices.
• 'Travel (New York Times)
In travel writing, the travel and the writing are important, of course, but don't bother doing either unless you have a third element: the gimmick.
• 'WATER COOLER DEBATE: has business class travel had its day at last? (Sunday Herald)
BUSINESS people have to travel. E-mail, faxes, phone calls: none of them beats the personal face-to-face meeting, which is still an essential part of business, and of bringing business back to Scotland.

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