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• 'No Travel Advised In Cook County (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
No travel is advised on roads in northeastern Minnesota's Cook County.
• 'Councils to reinstate free travel (BBC News)
Six of seven local councils in Lincolnshire opt to offer entirely free bus travel to concessionary pass holders.
• 'Most travel policies ?weak,? GSA finds (Federal Times)
ATLANTA ? The General Services Administration says more than half of the travel policies at federal agencies aren?t properly written or implemented. GSA has started to compile data on governmentwide travel policies through a survey conducted by its Center for Policy Evaluation.
• 'No travel advised in flooded Cook County, Minn. (Pioneer Press)
GRAND MARAIS ? No travel is advised on roads in northeastern Minnesota's Cook County, including Highway 61, the main road along Lake Superior's North Shore.
• 'Travel Agents Staying Busy (WNEP 16 Pennsylvania)
Travel agents and travelers agree, gas prices are no doubt having an impact on vacations but some travel agents said people who want to get away are still going.
• 'Even limited travel has its wonders (San Francisco Chronicle)
Summer's coming, so let's see where we are. In a recession. (Your president may not be able to say it, but a travel editor can.) For people worried about keeping their jobs and their houses, vacation may enter the realm of the unthinkable. The lucky ones who...
• 'Rice due to travel to Paris, Middle East (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel next week to Paris for an Afghan donors conference and to the Middle East to push for a Palestinian-Israeli peace deal this year, a statement said Tuesday.
• 'Interim head for travel watchdog (BBC News)
A new interim chairman has been appointed to London's independent travel watchdog.
• 'Travel Agencies Gear Up For Holiday Season (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - Local travel agencies are now bracing for the upcoming' school holidays by tailoring more attractive and cheaper packages to cater for the market, as well as diversifying strategies what with the competitive presence of low-cost air carriers.
• 'Visaless Travel To The USA Made Safer & Easier (BruDirect.com)
Bandar Seri Begawan - US Embassy to Brunei Darussalam Charge d'Affaires Justin Friedman in a media conference yesterday assured Brunei citizens that the June 3rd announcement of Electronic System for travel Authorization (ESTA) was designed to make travelling to the US more convenient, modem and safe.

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