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Walk in Dian Fossey’s footsteps and see your genetic descendants up close: Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is one of only five international parks where you can see mountain gorillas up close. If you manage to snag one of the coveted park passes–40 are given out each day–you could be within Frisbee-throwing distance of the […]

Sound the alarms! The Chinese city of Qingdao has come under algal attack–and the Olympics could be at risk! More than 30 percent of the waters designated for sailing contests off the coast of the city are inundated with thick enteromorpha prolifera. But the Chinese authorities have a way with getting people to “volunteer,” and […]

Nevada is home to 28 legal brothels, and despite what you might think, most of them cater to truckers. The cat houses are located in rural areas and depend on business from horny long-haul drivers–and they’re hurting thanks to the rising cost of gas.
Bobbi Davis of the Shady Lady Ranch told CNN:

Anything that has to […]

Earlier this summer, we went wine tasting in New York’s Finger Lakes region. Not all the wine we had was worth drinking, but these places deserve a stop.
Unlike many of the wineries on Seneca Lake, Villa Bellangelo sits a little bit off Highway 14. We actually drove right past it, but after whipping a quick […]

Can’t afford a European vacation this summer? Do what our contributor Claire Duffett did: Explore Southeast Asia instead.
Are we talking about the same war? You don’t know the history of the Vietnam War until you’ve learned about the “struggle against American aggression” from the tour guides at Ho Chi Minh City’s Reunification Palace.

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Back in 1994, Hunter Walker bought five shares of stock in theme park giant Walt Disney Company…
I invested in the House of Mouse because they were one of the only companies I knew of as a 10-year-old. Over the years, I held on to the stock as Disney made a killing by becoming a farm […]

Check out FlyBe’s baggage charges. This European discount carrier charges next to nothing for fares, but oh do they sock it to you with the baggage. They might as well be in the freight forwarding business.
Get this: they allow only 10 KG (that’s about 22 pounds) in carryon luggage (that’s free, for now anyway); then […]

Nah, not really. The scientists at the massive European physics lab CERN say when they switch on the Large Hadron Collider this August nothing more than groundbreaking research will result.
But some of the nerds at Wikipedia say the LHC could create “micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles,” none of which we understand–but […]

By now you probably know the drill.  USA3000 is doing their usual sale thing and offering $10.00 off on each booked segment (that would be a $20.00 reduction on a round trip purchase) from various cities to their Florida destinations.  This promotion is valid for travel between now and December 15, 2008 (though some itineraries […]