Not so fast on slipping your handy corkscrew-with-foil-cutter into your carry-on. The TSA had planned on relaxing some of its rules, including the ban on non-locking blades that are less than 2.36 inches long and no more than 1/2 inch wide. They also were allowing toy bats, billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse...
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This week we got a rather urgent email from our neighbor, Chuck. It turned out the poor fellow had been on a tour of the Philippines, had lost his wallet and was having problems getting the hotel owner to hand back his passport unless he paid the bill. “I am sorry if i am...
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Attention wine lovers: The TSA now says it’s OK to carry corkscrews that have a foil-cutter attachment in your carry-on luggage. Corkscrews never were banned (neither were knitting needles or nail clippers, despite reports you may have heard) but under previous rules you could only take the fairly useless kind with no handy blade...
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Am I surprised that Napa, Calif., was judged to be the happiest place in America based on a mathematical analysis of 10 million tweets? No, I am not. Some of my pleasantest hours have been spent in Napa. Am I further surprised that Beaumont, Texas, wound up at the bottom of that list? Not...
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Air New Zealand has come up with another awesome in-flight safety video — “An Unexpected Briefing,” inspired by the new movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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When you’re buckled in and waiting for takeoff, do you pull out the emergency instruction card and make a note of where the exits are? Check out your fellow passengers and see who’d be easiest to scramble over in a mad dash for safety? Contemplate whether you’d be willing to eat human flesh to...
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Get out your spiffiest hats and practice saying “Helloooo!” It’s the 60th anniversary of the reign of QEII and it’s time to celebrate. If you are in London, expect a four-day extravaganza that includes Sunday’s Big Jubilee Lunch, where neighborhoods are encouraged to share lunch. After that there is this wild affair planned on...
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For a 75-year-old grande dame, the Golden Gate Bridge is looking pretty good. So, it seems only fitting that the special span should have a party with all the trimmings. Events are planned through the fall, but the main event is Sunday, May 27. It was on this day in 1937 that the bridge...
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Some Twitter accounts generate more interest than others. You may have heard about @kanyewest‘s occasional stream-of-consciousness outbursts or followed @ruthbourdain‘s hilarious mash-ups of food writer @ruthreichl‘s poetic gastronomic musings. But did you know that some landmark Twitter accounts are actual landmarks? Take @GGBridge, the account of San Francisco’s famous orange span. GG mostly tweets...
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Looking for a job? But you don’t want to get trapped in a cubicle? I’ve got just the thing, provided you have a partner with whom you get along very well. Oh, and one of you has to have a valid U.S. Coast Guard commercial operator’s license for a boat carrying at least six...
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