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• Airlines waive change fees due to hurricane

  Wed Sep 1, 2010
  • No change fee is a ruse. The airlines (Delta, in this case) will still charge you the increase in fare. We found this out during the earthquake in Chile, when all the airports in that country were closed. We took a bus to Argentina and flew home from there, $800 poorer.

• Dutch girl eyes record with round-world voyage

  Fri Aug 20, 2010
  • Of course she "knows what she wants". She is 14-__ all 14 year old know what they want- it is up to the ADULT to guide them sensibly.

• Scientists go hiking to probe effects of technology on brain

  Mon Aug 16, 2010
  • They did not have to go on a trip to figure this out. Ask anyone over the age of 55 how wonderful it was to grow up without cellphones and laptops. One actually had to think, not just go online and get answers. One had to know how to read a map- not just ask your car to give you directions.

• What's your take on the Jetblue flight attendant who fled the plane via the emergency chute after he got into an argument with an unruly passenger?

  Tue Aug 10, 2010
  • Passengers treat flight attendants like slaves. I can understand Slater having had enough. Fighting over overhead space- get a life!

• Boy, 9, forgotten at Chicago airport

  Mon Jul 26, 2010
  • United needs to offer him free round trip tickets until he is 18.

• Whale of a tale! 40-ton mammal lands on yacht

  Wed Jul 21, 2010
  • "watching the whale flip it's tail for about half an hour" Whales usually do this as a sign of "get out of my territory, you are too close". You weren't listening. From the photo, it looks like there were others not listening either.

• U.S. scatters, pondering what might have been

  Sun Jun 27, 2010
  • It is a game, a game, a game- get over yourselves

• Mental illness epidemic swamps Iraq facilities

  Fri Jun 18, 2010
  • Please, Sam, educate yourself on mental illness. Then you won't be ignorant, but you will probably still be stupid.

• Parents of teen sailor fend off criticism

  Fri Jun 11, 2010
  • Well, Downtown- I do not mind that my tax dollars are going to pay for healthcare for everyone. You must be one of those people who think healthcare belongs only to the wealthy and you must have healthcare. ( I have excellent healthcare).

• Parents of teen sailor fend off criticism

  Fri Jun 11, 2010
  • I did not say she failed-( I rock climb and never do I think I failed if I don't summit- I do the best I can and that is good enough), I just think that she is selfish - as is the case with most 16 year olds-and, hopefully, at some point she will realize the world is bigger than herself-