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PHOTOS: 10 Things To Pack That Will Save You Money

SmarterTravel | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Airport Security, Travel, Airport, Airplane, Slideexpand, Travel Advice, Travel Tips, Travel Blogs, Packing Tips, Luggage, Packing, Travel News
SmarterTravel

The right travel gear can help you keep costs down while seeing the world.

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Review: Trust Me by George Kennedy

Carole Mallory | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Steel, Bo Derek, Cool Hand Luke, Don Rickles, Depression, The Dirty Dozen, Have Gun Will Travel, Earthquake, Paul Newman, Wwii, Naked Gun Maverick, Oscar, Rawhide, Death on the Nile, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Trust Me, Airforce, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Patricia Neal, Carol Burnett, Airport, Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Books News
Carole Mallory

They struggled, sleeping in doorways or cars until a woman named Dolly gave them shelter, but Dolly's generosity had a price tag. Torture was commonplace in her household, and she beat George and his mother.

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TSA Defends Pat-Down Of Crying 4-Year-Old Girl At Kansas Airport

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Michelle Brademeyer, Tsa, Pat Down, Terror, Airport, Tsa Agents, Wichita, Lori Croft, Security, Travel News

WICHITA, Kan. -- The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the ch...

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Major Gov't Agency Funded With Spare Change

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, Loose Change Airport, Airport, Airport Security Loose Change, Airports, Airport Security, Airport Change, Airport Loose Change, Loose Change, Loose Change Airport Security, Change Airport, Money News

Between the strip searches and pat-downs, it's easy to lose track of your stuff when going through airport security--especially your spare change. In ...

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POLL: Is It Too Easy To Lose The TSA's Trust?

Christopher Elliott | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Tsa-Precheck-Program, Airport Security, Airport, State Department, Screening, Precheck, Tsa, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Christopher Elliott

As the TSA moves toward what it calls an "intelligence-driven, risk-based approach to security," maybe it's worth asking how intelligent some of its new systems really are.

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Paris Airports Downplay Strike Impacts

AP | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Global Pulse, Charles De Gaulle, Orly, Airport, Paris Airport Strike, Paris, Europe Travel, Paris Strike, Travel News

PARIS — Air France and other airlines have so far limited the damage on Monday from a strike by aviation industry workers by canceling or resche...

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"Snow Way We'll Get a Blizzard"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Humor, Christmas, Winter, Weather, Snow Blower, Blizzard, Airport, Snow, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

As a man who has been perpetrating snow jobs for more than half a century, I can say with authority that there is a simple reason why the Northeast has not yet been hit with a blizzard this winter: I had my snow blower tuned up.

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How Much Time Do You Really Need Before Your Flight?

Dane Steele Green | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Travel Information, Gay Travel, Airport, Airports, Amsterdam-Schipol, MagLev Train, Airlines, Check in Time, Flights, Jetblue, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Dane Steele Green

Today there are a variety of ways to minimize the time you need to arrive at the airport in advance to make your scheduled departure. Arriving two hours before a flight isn't always necessary.

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The Latest Buzzword At The TSA: Inconsistent

Christopher Elliott | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Airport Screening, Airport Security, Airport, Airport Scanners, Airlines, Tsa, Travel News
Christopher Elliott

So let me get this straight: Drugs are OK, but letting a few unchecked bags with nothing dangerous on board -- not OK? C'mon, TSA.

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San Diego Couple: Airline Manager Called Us 'Faggots'

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Airport, Gay Slur, Thanksgiving Travels, Denver Airport, United Airlines, Homophobia, Holiday Travels, Denver International Airport, Billy Canu, Gay Voices News

A Thanksgiving weekend's travels turned out to be less-than-savory for one San Diego couple, who claim a United Airlines agent used a gay slur against...

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Passenger Caught With Brass Knuckles, Other Prohibited Weapons

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Checked Luggage, Global Pulse, Weapons in Luggage, Tsa, Airport, Airlines, JFK Airport, Travel News

A man traveling through John F. Kennedy Airport was nabbed by the TSA Tuesday with a cache of prohibited weapons in his checked luggage. Ahmed Abo...

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WATCH: Disabled Vet Gets Kicked Off Shuttle At Airport

Fox 25 | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Video, Airport, US Airways, Kathleen Wood, Veterans, Reagan National Airport, Disabled Veterans, Impact News

Kathleen Wood, a disabled army veteran, says airline staff wouldn’t let her board a shuttle with her walker and made her trek to the next terminal b...

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Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly.

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Warfare, President Obama, Jobs, Poll, Larry Flynt, Obama, Democratic, Tax the Rich, It Came Out of the Sky, Republican, Pistols at Dawn, Social Contract, Unemployment, Flynt, Booed Soldier, Cpr, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Pitchforks and Torches, Paul Krugman, American Jobs Act, Rick Perry, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Million Bucks, Mainstream, House, Cbo, Congress, Ccr, Middle Class Warrior, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rick Horowitz, Campaign Obama, Mddotw, Support the Troops, Airport, Gay Soldier, Deficit Cutting Plan, Harry Reid, Jeff Merkley, Friday Talking Points, Class Warfare, Republican Debate, Phil Roe, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

As was entirely predictable, once Obama stood up for taxing the rich folk a wee bit more, the Republicans fired back with what they think is the biggest weapon in their arsenal: screaming "Class warfare!"

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Duty Free Shopper Buys $199,000 Bottle Of Scotch

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Asia Travel, Global Pulse, Duty Free Whiskey, Duty Free Alcohol, Airport, Duty Free, Duty-Free-Shops, Scotch, Video, Travel News

There are always fun finds to be made at the airport duty free store — just ask the Chinese businessman who dropped almost $200K on a bottle of scot...

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Two Men Pulled From Dallas Flight

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Dfw, Airport, AA 1316, Flight 1316, Global Pulse, Airport Security, Dallas-Fort Worth, American Airlines, Travel News

UPDATE, 4:45pm: NBC Dallas-Fort Worth is reporting that a source at the airport told the station that a "suspicious" bag, which housed a printer, was ...

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Airlines That Charge for a "Civilized Experience"

Christine Negroni | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Emirates, Virgin Atlantic Flight Attendants, Airport, Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, Lufthansa, Japan Airlines, American Airlines, Ancillary Revenue, Customer Service, Travel News
Christine Negroni

I learned how to open the airplane door in an emergency, help a handicapped person into a seat, take down a disruptive passenger and deploy the evacuation slide.

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Flier Files Suit After Being Helf On Drug Charges For 2 Weeks

Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Drugs, Airport Security, War on Drugs, Airport, Colombia, Miami, Lawsuits, Travel News

Donaldo Visbal is suing the Miami law enforcement officers who detained him for two weeks on the suspicion that he was smuggling cocaine through the F...

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TSA Catches Smugglers With Birds, Snakes And A Turtle (PHOTO)

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Plane, Tsa, Video, Airport, Snakes, Airplane, Lax, Global Pulse, Birds, Airports, Miami, Flying, Snakes on a Plane, Travel News

TSA agents at Los Angeles International Airport discovered two birds while patting down a passenger planning to board a China-bound flight last week, ...

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"The French Connection"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Stamford Advocate, Transatlantic, Gps, French, Humor, Atlantic, Airplane, Paris, France, English, Language, Airport, Cadenet, Boomer, Marseille, Wine, Stamford, New England, Luberon, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

Excusez-moi, s'il vous plait. I should say I'll always have Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, where I recently spent eight minutes (huit minutes) sprinting from one airplane (l'avion) to another.

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The News of the World, the Profumo Affair and the Planned Military Coup

John Fleming | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Assassination, Airport, Airey Neave, House of Commons, Harold Wilson, Harold Macmillan, Rupert Murdoch, News of the World, News International, Politics News
John Fleming

I studied journalism at college - well, radio, TV and journalism. The man in charge of the journalism part of the course was the Production Editor of...

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Airlines' Newest Threat: Scorpion Attacks

AP | NIGEL DUARA | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Flight, Animal Attacks, Weird News, Airport, Weird Animals, Scorpion, Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Weird News News

PORTLAND, Ore. — All Jeff Ellis could do was wait as he sat terrified 30,000 feet in the air staring at the wriggling scorpion that stung him on...

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Apple Announces New Product

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Apple Time Capsule, Apple Airport Extreme, Apple, Airport, Apple News, Airport Extreme Refresh, Airport Extreme, Time Capsule, Technology News

New models of Apple's Time Capsule wireless backup devices have been announced. The new Time Capsules will be offered in 2TB and 3TB models, with p...

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Flight Brisk

Dinkar Jain | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Airport, Infrastructure, Car Rentals, Flying, Travel, Business Travel, Country, Rural America, Airlines, Business, Tsa, Travel News
Dinkar Jain

Next time you're on that rickety car-rental service shuttle on your way to an immersion program in a mosaic of metallic sheen, reflect on what smaller airport options you might have.

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World's First Airport eBook Library Opens

aviationrecord.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, Ebook Library, Taiwan Airport, Airport, Nstitute for Information Industry, Ebooks, Aiport Ebook Library, Books News

Airports across the world have created a myriad of innovative ways to keep their passengers entertained, from airport spray tanning in London to an ai...

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Security Alert At Heathrow Airport

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security Alert, Heathrow Airport Bomb Threat, Airport, England, Terrorism, Heathrow Airport Security, Airport Security, Bombing, World News

LONDON -- A security alert that prompted a partial evacuation of London's Heathrow Airport has been resolved with no arrests, police said Thursday. ...

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