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U.K. Resident Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Travelling to Ohio to Have Sex with a Minor

Richard Castle, 47, a resident of the United Kingdom, has been sentenced to serve 192 months in prison in connection with a trip he made to Ohio from his home in the United Kingdom to have illicit sexual activity with a minor in June 2011.



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Man Pleads Guilty to Traveling to Maryland to Engage in Sexual Activity with a Minor

Gregory King, 28, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today in connection with contacting a 13-year-old girl over the Internet and traveling across state lines to engage in sexual activity with her



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Justice Department Settles Citizenship Status Discrimination Claim Against Travel Management Company

The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Travel Management Company, a private airplane charter company based in Elkhart, Indiana, resolving claims that the company engaged in citizenship status discrimination in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).



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Registered Convicted Sex Offender Found Guilty of Attempted Production of Child Pornography and Traveling to Engage in Sex with a Minor

A 65-year-old registered sex offender, with two prior convictions relating to possession of child pornography and attempted sexual conduct with minors, was found guilty today of attempting to produce child pornography, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, transporting child pornography, possessing child pornography and offense by a registered sex offender



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APEC Advances Digitization of the APEC Business Travel Card

An APEC Business Travel Card mobile application will make travel easier and more secure




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New MDCG guidance on temporary extraordinary measures related to medical device Notified Body audits during COVID-19 quarantine orders and travel restrictions

When it rains guidance, it pours. The MDCG just released Guidance on temporary extraordinary measures related to medical devices Notified Body audits during COVID-19 quarantine orders and travel restrictions. The guidance takes immediate effect and is valid for the whole period of duration of the pandemic COVID-19 as declared by the World Health Organisation. It […]




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The ultimate guide to masks: Where travelers must wear them

LAX and many airlines are now requiring face coverings to avoid coronavirus spread. TSA agents will don them too.




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L.A. traffic is starting to pick up again, and travel speeds are slowing down

California reopening: Traffic volume is steadily creeping up, and travel times are getting longer.





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A systematic review and meta-analysis of bone loss in space travelers

npj Microgravity, Published online: 05 May 2020; doi:10.1038/s41526-020-0103-2

A systematic review and meta-analysis of bone loss in space travelers




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Active travelling to school is not associated with increased total daily physical activity levels, or reduced obesity and cardiovascular/pulmonary health parameters in 10–12-year olds: a cross-sectional cohort study




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I travelled to Meghalaya as a woman and understood what male privilege feels like

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No matter how early we set out or how dark it was by the time we got back to our base, we had this overwhelming feeling of safety.
Antara Telang
As a woman, walking down a street in most of India means certain things. Chances are, no matter what you’re wearing, what time of the day it is, or where you are, you’re going to get stared at, commented on, sung at, touched, photographed, or a beautiful combination of all of the above. Being a woman who likes to backpack across different places in the country, I’ve seen that this has been a universal experience – though perhaps in varying degrees of intensity – no matter where I’ve travelled, whether it’s been in Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Kerala, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, or Assam. But, a couple of months ago, on a trip to Meghalaya, I was filled with a sense of wonder. Sure, the views were jaw-dropping levels of gorgeous, and I was filling my tummy with delicious pork and beef specialties that I’d never get in my home city of Mumbai, but the best part was truly the feeling of walking around and feeling “like a man”. Nah, I didn’t ingest an exotic substance that made me gain a couple of inches (I meant of height, what were you thinking?) or grow a moustache. My voice didn’t get a whole lot deeper and I didn’t develop a sudden disdain for my flowery night shorts. It’s just that I was given a teensy, temporary insight into male privilege. Image courtesy: Aamna Khan I was travelling with a woman friend, Aamna Khan, and given that the two of us were on a budget, we often had to walk or wait for public transport from place to place. It didn’t help that it got pitch dark by six every evening and that public transport was usually restricted to a share taxi of some sort. But no matter how early we set out or how dark it was by the time we got back to our base, we had this overwhelming feeling of safety. It wasn’t just that we weren’t getting felt up (or worse); we felt it in the smallest things. Though we looked very much like tourists with our backpacks and cameras, nobody forced conversation with us. When they did speak to us, everyone was exactly the right level of friendly – curious about where we came from and where we’d be travelling without being overly specific, without questions of how much money we were spending or whether our families were okay with us travelling alone (which are real questions we’d both been asked multiple times while travelling in other places). Image courtesy: Batista The kids who stared at us were only excited about waving at us and yelling out “hellooooo!” from their school buses. Women weren’t judgmental about what we wore or how loudly we spoke. Men smiled at us and wished us luck on our travels. They didn’t stare at us hoping to develop X-ray vision to see through our clothes the way a lot of men in the rest of our country do. When squeezed next to us in share cabs – despite the fact that there were usually five other people in the back seat of an Alto –  they took care to ensure that we were comfortable. They avoided ‘innocuous’ brushes of their hands against our bodies, and some of them even asked us if we minded that they were playing Khasi music in the car. We stood out like sore thumbs (for one, we were nowhere close to as well-dressed or attractive as the local women), but nobody took photos of us without our consent. Image courtesy: Antara Telang We even spent one night at a campsite run by five men in the middle of nowhere, where we were the only two women, without the slightest discomfort (excluding the bugs that we’d inevitably find in the folds of our clothes). Because I am a disabled woman, I am used to even greater scrutiny and questions than nondisabled women are, but even that didn’t really make much of a difference to people in Meghalaya.  If you’re a man reading this, you’re probably thinking, “What’s the big deal?” But like I mentioned earlier, living each day like this for nine whole days at a stretch without exception was a shocker for my friend and me. Every evening when we’d come back, we’d look at each other with incredulity that yet another day had passed without lecherous vultures swooping down on us in one way or another. While one cannot deny the privilege my friend and I carry – of being well-dressed, English speaking, upper caste, urban women – the fact remains that we have never felt so safe from daily gender violence as we did on that trip to Meghalaya. I think a large part of this can be attributed to Meghalaya’s largely matrilineal culture. Though not a matriarchal society, women enjoy a far better position there than in most other parts of India, and indeed the world. It is common to see businesses completely run by women, and for women to be roaming freely on the streets. Whatever the root cause may be, I’ve never felt that way in my adult life, no matter which part of India or the world I’ve travelled in. And it’s for that reason (okay, yes, maybe the pork curry is another major reason) that I’m sure I’ll visit again. (Views expressed are author's own)




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How to sharpen your 'noticing' skills when traveling

The stuff you notice that no one else does, that's the most important!




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Greenhouse: Sydney's Traveling, 'Waste-Free' Strawbale Restaurant by Joost Bakker

In our conventional, resource-intensive food and building industries, 'waste-free' may seem like an alien concept, which makes projects like Australia's Greenhouse all the more impressive. Touted as a




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Would You Travel One-Way to Mars?

This week two scientists, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies, suggested in the Journal of Cosmology that it is time for humans to start colonizing Mars. Humanity needs some




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Build a travel capsule wardrobe this summer

A new downloadable planner from Citizenne Style can help you create a 10-day fashion plan using minimal items.




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Small 323 sq. ft. apartment is stylishly redesigned for travelers

A tiny apartment in a new tourist hotspot is remade with clever modern elements to maximize space.




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Smart 'plug-and-play' houseboat made for marinas or traveling around

This modern houseboat can accommodate up to two people comfortably.




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Aluminum Lume travel trailer sports retractable roof for stargazing (Video)

This stylish and durable trailer looks like a cross between a mini-Airstream and a horse trailer, and has a kitchen in the back.




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Norway wants tourists to slow down and travel more sustainably

Cruise ships and Disney's 'Frozen' have led to crowds of unprecedented size, about which Norwegians are not entirely happy.




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Scotland is subsidizing electric bikes to encourage sustainable and active travel

This is something North American governments should copy.




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How to pack the best food for travel

Whether you're in a plane, train, or car, it's important always to have good snacks.




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Travelling Art Has Seats for Insects

Pestival, is a weekend festival packed with art, music, talks and workshops, celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. It starts from the fact that eighty percent of creatures on earth are insects, the 'pests' without whom humans




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Converted ambulance becomes one man's traveling home-on-wheels (Video)

Diverging from the Sprinter van conversion trend, this man revamped an old life-saving vehicle into his own tiny home.




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Why I always travel with a paper map in hand

Who needs GPS? Nothing beats a trusty paper map for navigating a foreign city.




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A canoe trip is the epitome of slow travel

"There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." (Kenneth Grahame)




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Meet the extraordinary catfish that travels the width of South America

The dorado catfish swims more than 7,200 miles, making it the world champion of freshwater fish migration.




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Housesitting: Travel the world, stay at someone else's home for free

Thanks to the internet, housesitters can now travel the world, living in different places for a few days or a few months for free, in exchange for taking care of an absent homeowner's property, pets or errands.




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New Chic Travel Accessories by Jendarling Offer Alternative to Plastic Garment Bags

We've covered Jendarling's organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection, comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. For Jendarling,




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5 benefits to travelling with small kids

It's not all stress and extra work. In some ways, kids can make a trip more interesting and interactive.




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How traveling for two months has been a lesson in minimalism

There are certain things I've hardly missed, and others I've missed more than I expected.




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You don't need to travel around the world to take selfies with art

Just take them with big photos, nobody will ever know.




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How to make air travel (a bit) less damaging

We know it's bad, but people still do it, which is why we still need to talk about it.




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Why cheap mass air travel must be stopped

Author Craig Murray says, "The Earth cannot afford to indulge the pollution caused by massive air tourism."




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Could 'flygskam' change the way we travel?

The Swedish word, which translates to 'flight shame', is driving interest in climate-friendly trains, longer stays, and frequent flier taxes.




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"Flight Shame" is actually changing the way people travel

Domestic flights in Sweden are declining and airport expansion plans are being reconsidered.




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Danish newspaper will cut most flying and change its travel section

There is a lot of money to be made in the travel section. Should other media follow their example?




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Food-loving travelers to Asia can shop, cook, and eat with locals, thanks to the Traveling Spoon

This cool new website connects travelers with local home cooks for unforgettable meals.




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Man & his rescue cat travel 31,000 miles in their camper van (Video)

Wanting to make a massive life change, this man makes his exit from the corporate world -- with his feline friend and a self-renovated van.




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Couple builds tiny house on wheels for $30K to free up money and time for travel

When you want to really pursue your dreams, instead of simply dreaming them, you might need to think outside the box. Outside the housing box, that is.




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Ditch disposable cups with this gorgeous cork and porcelain travel mug

Two of our favorite materials, cork and porcelain, are together at last in this clever travel mug.




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11 travel essentials that are always in my carry-on

These are the items that keep my bag light and my life easy.




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9 Eco Travel Destinations on the Hot List for 2012

From sitting in on scientific research trips to experiencing traditional native cultures, these are the responsibly-run hotels, resorts, and trips everyone's talking about.




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Yucatan Travel Journal, Day 1: Even all-inclusive resorts are hopping on the 'green' bandwagon

But regardless of what green initiatives they implement, tourists must be willing to change, too.




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Yucatan Travel Journal, Day 2: Healing plants, underwater sinkholes, and a carbon offset forest

As part of an ongoing series about the Maya Ka'an community-based tourism initiative, this was my first official day in the Mayan region, and it was certainly full of adventure.




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Yucatan Travel Journal, Day 3: The Cave of the Hanging Snakes

Snakes, spiders, and bats in a tight space may sound like the stuff of nightmares, but Kantemó, Mexico, is actually an incredible place to visit.




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Our tips for traveling like a TreeHugger

Katherine and Margaret share their tips for green travel.




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Could you travel without a smartphone?

A new study asked 24 travellers to take this challenge and report back on their experiences.




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How to keep a travel journal

It's a wonderful way to process and preserve the experience of foreign travel.




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Visit grocery stores when you travel

They offer a special glimpse into local life – and they always have good snacks.