A device to prevent airplane fuel tanks from exploding must be installed on certain passenger jets and cargo planes, federal officials said Wednesday, 12 years after such an explosion destroyed TWA Flight 800, killing all 230 people aboard.
US unveils new rule on airplane fuel tanksI've never wasted vacation time on any of my houses. What I've done instead is used time away from the office to get COMPLETELY away.
Vern Yip is HGTV's answer to Tim Gunn: When Vern shows up on a show, you know that everything is going to be just fine.
Summer has just begun and I am already tired of hearing about some vacation destinations. But not so tired that we won't run stories about these places ourselves. Sometimes the beaten path is the beaten path for a reason.
For 10 years, I've traveled with a black Lowe Alpine daypack. It's a teardrop-shaped nylon bag with a foam-padded back, two side pockets for water bottles, a front pocket for strapping in a camp shovel and one zip pocket in the lid, just big enough to hold a wallet and sunglasses. When I went to Costa Rica for a week in February, that bag - about the size of a college student's book pack - and a large camera bag was the sum total of my luggage.
BEIJING - My eagerness allowed me to storm up each thin step to the first lookout tower. We scaled the spindly stone trail, sometimes on all fours on the near-vertical parts, grabbing the cracked stone dotted with rocks and weeds.
The dollar tanked long ago. Now the prices of gas and airline tickets are soaring - as is the cost of a gallon of milk. In the face of this economic storm, hail begins to fall - the real stuff, pounding the roof over your head. You turn on the television for a weather update only to find political pundits prattling on about the presidential candidates.
McHENRY, Md. - There's a man- made river atop a mountain in western Maryland.
What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.
It's no surprise that art connoisseurs regularly flock to New York for a fix of what's hot or just to revisit timeless classics - the Big Apple is the definitive art capital of the United States. But beyond Fifth Avenue, Chelsea and Long Island City - indeed, an hour north of the George Washington Bridge - there are treasures to be found upstream.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday aimed at ending the Federal Aviation Administration's sometimes cozy relationship with the airline industry and reversing purported complacency on safety oversight.
Q. I'm considering going to New Mexico for a high-end spa weekend. Any ideas? - K.C., Morgan Hill, Calif.
Two airborne planes - one landing and the other taking off - came within a half-mile of colliding at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday in the second such incident at the airport in a week, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
I was sitting at the bar in the karaoke lounge on the Carnival Fascination when a 30-something woman buying a glass of house red introduced herself.
Indiana Jones gets out of the proverbial frying pan and jumps into the mother of all fires.
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