President Obama being briefed on the spill in May 2010 (Courtesy usepagov/Flickr ) Following the recent hurricane season , environmental inspection teams have analyzed the coastlines impacted by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also known as the BP oil spill)...
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Tam Coc, Vietnam. One of the spots recommended to the newly-minted millionaires of Facebook. (Courtesy caswell_tom/Flickr ) After Facebook 's IPO filing on Wednesday, many of the company's employees became millionaires overnight, at least on paper. A few hundred of the company's employees have enough stock...
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Olympic Park, London (Courtesy Getty Images/LOCOG) More than 120,000 additional room nights at more than 200 hotels are now available to be booked by travelers still planning on hopping the pond to London for the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer. Earlier this week, the London Organising Committee of the ...
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As the Muslim Brotherhood gained considerable ground in the final phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections last week, questions remain about how the group's Islamist stance will impact the country's policies and subsequently its allure as a tourist destination. The Pyramids of ...
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(Courtesy Kabacchi/Flickr ) The Costa Concordia catastrophe of course raises a whole host of questions. Did the captain purposely go too close to shore? Why did the ship list so quickly? Was the crew not properly trained to deal with an accident? The chaos described by passengers...
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Filed under: Stories , South America , Guatemala , Ecotourism , Budget Travel This may sound strange, but one of my favorite aspects of international travel has to do with liability, or rather, the lack of it. Although the age of personal responsibility seems to have gone the way of...
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Filed under: Activism , History , Learning , Food and Drink , Asia , Cambodia , Budget Travel , Travel Deals Not only is Cambodia still one of the poorest countries in Asia, but it is also one of the cheapest. Much of this has to do...
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Filed under: Hiking , Africa , Ethiopia , Budget Travel This was a strange year for me. I didn't see any new countries but I still had some great adventure travel . I spent two months living in Harar, Ethiopia , writing a series about it for all you fine folks. I'd visited...
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Filed under: Budget Travel For many people, booking a round the world trip is a distant fantasy, up there with "win a Grammy" and "marry Ryan Gosling ". But as most seasoned travelers know, there isn't just one way to travel, and global adventures can be had at multiple budgets. Our friends ...
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If you think the sales over the coming weekend are limited to toys, clothes, and electronics, think again. Travel deals are now part of the landscape of Black Friday and Cyber Monday too. Here are a few examples: Air-Hotel Packages Gate 1 Travel , which sells air-hotel combos, river cruises, escorted tours...
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