“The auto club forecasts about 41 million people in the United States will travel 50 miles or more for the Thanksgiving holiday, a drop of 600,000 travelers — or 1.4 percent — from the 41.6 million travelers in 2007.” [Link]
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“Vegas barreled through previous U.S. economic recessions with no problem, but the current slowdown — marked by home foreclosures and then high gasoline prices — has had a much bigger impact on the gambling mecca than economists expected. And while free rooms and room discounts have kept hotels relatively full — occupancy is down just 1 percent in the year to July — gambling revenue is down 6.5 percent.” [Link]
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“‘I fell in love with it,’ says 18-year-old Samantha Cogar, who dragged her grandparents on a 2,500 mile roadtrip to Forks from Louisville, Ky., earlier this summer. ‘I can’t wait to go back.’ Cogar is one of thousands of visitors who have flocked to Forks in response to ‘Twilight,’ the hottest series to hit shelves since ‘Harry Potter.’” [Link]
“‘I kept trying to get through and it would go off,’ he explains. Wayne shed his sweatshirt and necklace, but the detector still buzzed. ‘Finally the TSA officer said something to the effect of, ‘Remove your shorts,’ and I thought to myself, ‘Now that sounds a little weird, but I guess it’s okay – I mean they show guys in boxers in the Sunday paper ads, right? I guess maybe between not having enough sleep and not understanding him … I don’t know. I did it!’ Wayne laid his shorts on the conveyer belt to be X-rayed and walked back in his underwear and T-shirt. ” [Link]
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“The pilot of the US Air Force Globemaster flew from Christchurch in New Zealand to the US Antarctica base at McMurdo Sound overnight Thursday in the first such mission described as risky. The pioneering flight opens up the possibility of safe landings during the long, dark, polar winter when the sun disappears for months.” [Link]
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“Several foreigners were on the flight, including passport-holders from Abkhazia, Germany, France and Ukraine, said Lev Koshlyakov, spokesman for flight operator Aeroflot Nord. Authorities are trying to confirm the presence of an American on board, Koshlyakov said.” [Link]
“As the airline adds onboard Internet service, some travelers might be tempted to visit seedy alleyways off the information superhighway. So the Assn. of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents 19,000 American Airlines flight attendants, has talked with management about installing filtering software to keep inappropriate Web content grounded, union spokesman David Roscow said Wednesday. ‘Some passengers and some of the flight attendants have had some concerns about them going to inappropriate sites like porn sites,’ he said, although he was unaware of any actual incidents.” [Link]
“Miguel Olaya, 60, says he hired the DeRiso Funeral Home in New York City to ship his wife’s body to Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 1, but the coffin wasn’t at the airport when he went to meet it. He also claims the body was badly decomposed because it wasn’t properly embalmed. Christopher Robles, Olaya’s lawyer, said the airline gave his client conflicting stories. ‘First, they didn’t know where her body was. Then, they said maybe it was in Miami, and finally they said it was in Guatemala,’ the lawyer said Tuesday. ‘Instead of sending it on the flight to Guayaquil, American sent the body to Guatemala City.’” [Link]
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