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• 'Minister lost for an answer as cost of free bus travel rockets (The Scotsman)
THE cost of the Executive's flagship policy of providing free bus travel to one million older people across Scotland has more than doubled in the space of just three months.
• 'New Greater Miami CVB GLBT Travel Guide (Gay Wired)
(Miami, FL) - Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), in partnership with the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, is launching its most comprehensive gay and lesbian travel guide to date this week, announced William D. Talbert , GMCVB president & CEO.
• 'PNG slams Australian travel alerts (AAP via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News)
Australian government travel alerts that paint all of Papua New Guinea as dangerous are misleading and unfair, a senior PNG government minister says.
• 'Talk About Travel (Washington Post)
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• 'PNG slams Australian travel alerts (Sydney Morning Herald)
Australian government travel alerts that paint all of Papua New Guinea as dangerous are misleading, unfair and in need of review, says a senior PNG government minister.
• 'Online system makes TAD travel a breeze (United States Marines)
CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan (January 11, 2006) -- Okinawa service members and Department of Defense employees will soon be able to make temporary additional duty travel arrangements online.
• 'Surging Bulldogs travel to No. 2 Florida (Daily Times Leader)
Starkville ? In their first road action of the conference season, Mississippi State (11-3, 1-0) will travel to Gainesville to meet the second-ranked Florida Gators (14-0, 1-0) tonight on the UF campus.
• '£21m demand raises fears of spiralling costs for free travel (The Herald)
MSPs yesterday demanded an urgent update on the cost of giving pensioners free bus travel countrywide, amid fears the budget could spiral when the scheme goes live in the spring.
• 'World Travel Is Safer with US-VISIT, Security Official Says (U.S. Department of State)
After two years implementing new border entry policies and procedures, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports that further measures still are ahead as the agency strives to smooth and speed the process for legitimate travel and ?stop the bad guys.? The director of the U.S. border program, US-VISIT, says one significant success is that the program has not caused the disruption that
• 'House G.O.P. Considers Ban on Lobby-Paid Travel (New York Times)
A ban on privately financed travel is likely to be unpopular with many lawmakers as well as a variety of special-interest groups.

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