Perkins on travel: Avoiding the $305 Tokyo taxi trip, and other airport gouges
Source: San Jose Mercury News
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 13:36:11 -0700 | travel-news
Here's a rundown of the 10 most expensive major airport taxi rides outside of the United States: Tokyo Narita: $305. That's outlandish, but hardly anybody actually uses taxis; express trains on either JR-East (about $30) or Keisei Skyliner (about $24)...
Hawaii leaders grapple with spike in Kauai drownings
Source: San Jose Mercury News
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 12:18:54 -0700 | travel-news
It's a rock shelf on Kauai's northern shore, where sea turtles can be seen wandering peacefully amid tide pools filled with clear water. But when the weather changes and waves rise, the beach can quickly become deadly. A sign with...
Occupy Wall Street
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 17:08:59 -0700 | travel-news
September 17, 2011 Demonstrators gather in front of a police barricade to call for the occupation of Wall Street, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, in New York. According to their website, the mission of the leaderless resistance movement is to flood...
UN report proposes moratorium on killer robots
Source: Associated Press
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 09:48:47 -0700 | travel-news
A draft United Nations report says that killer robots that can attack targets without any human input "should not have the power of life and death over human beings." It deals with legal and philosophical issues of giving robots lethal...
Punishing Vieques: Puerto Rico Struggles With Contamination 10 Years After Activists Expel U.S. ...
Source: Democracy Now
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 11:23:51 -0700 | travel-news
This is viewer supported news On the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, thousands are commemorating the 10th anniversary of when the U.S...Since the 1940s, the Navy used nearly three-quarters of the island for bombing practice, war games and dumping old...
One World Trade Center getting ready
Posted by: prabirghose
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 10:09:55 -0700 | travel-news
Once the last two sections of the One World Trade Center are hoisted in place, it would earn the distinction of becoming the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The One World Trade Center building sits on ground zero, the...
Wheels Blog: N.H.T.S.A. Investigates Dodge Viper, Ford Crown Victoria and Porsche 911
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 07:56:28 -0700 | travel-news
About Wheels Safety News Recent Posts May 02 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would investigate the cars for safety matters ranging from rear suspension failure to large coolant leaks. May 02 Epic EV's 2013 Torq looks like...
3 children, 1 adult dead in Schenectady, NY, fire
Source: Boston.com
Schenectady :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 07:35:59 -0700 | travel-news
Officials tell local media that a fourth child was taken to the burn unit at Westchester Medical Center after the Thursday morning blaze. They say the fire in Schenectady, just west of the capital of Albany, broke out shortly after...
FEMA Policy Keeps Co-ops From Disaster Aid
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 21:02:39 -0700 | travel-news
Uli Seit for The New York Times Josephine Scarnato is the co-op's secretary-treasurer...Over all, the 140-unit, seven-story building sustained more than $500,000 in damage from Hurricane Sandy ...Since the hurricane, thousands of homeowners have been startled to discover that co-ops...
Boeing Is Moving Ahead With Updated 777
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 22:23:13 -0700 | travel-news
Boeing Moves to Upgrade Popular 777 Passenger Jet Published: May 1, 2013 Boeing 's sales force is starting to pitch airlines and jet leasing companies on an updated, larger version of its 777 passenger jet, a crucial step toward winning...
Brentwood fire station reopens after 10 months
Source: Contra Costa Times
Brentwood :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 15:30:09 -0700 | travel-news
Residents here got their second fire department back Wednesday morning with the reopening of Brentwood's Station 54, although the long-term future of that downtown facility and others in far East County remains uncertain. At 8 a.m. sharp, three firefighters and...
Three-vehicle accident on Evansville's East Side kills 1
Source: Courier & Press
Newburgh :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 09:38:46 -0700 | travel-news
An Evansville woman died Tuesday afternoon after being involved in a three-vehicle crash on the city's East Side. According to an Evansville Police Department Crash report, 57-year-old Robin Norris was turning left onto Lynch Road from Burkhardt Road when her...
San Francisco LGBT Pride organisers ban Bradley Manning
Source: Scoop
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 15:43:25 -0700 | travel-news
Pride have revoked the nomination of gay rights advocate and military whistleblower Private Bradley Manning as Grand Marshal of this year's Pride parade in June. Read their statement: http://fb.me/RhAlB44X Pride leaders are wrong on facts and ethics.
Wyclef Jean -- Roaming NYC with ASSAULT RIFLE GUITAR
Source: TMZ
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 15:41:18 -0700 | travel-news
Miraculously, no one was injured in the making of this footage.
96-year-old NY woman dies in house fire
Source: SF Gate
Niagara Falls :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-30 13:20:13 -0700 | travel-news
N.Y. (AP) Investigators say a 96-year-old New York woman has died after an electrical problem sparked a fire in her Niagara Falls home. Fire officials say the Tuesday morning fire began in a first-floor wall and spread to the second...
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