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Travel news, opinion and analysis
January 21, 2004
Cruise
Health Care Questioned
Are cruise passengers at risk if they become seriously ill on a
cruise? Some doctors say onboard care has a long way to go, pointing
out that most ships only have one or two physicians with up to
four nurses and that most infirmaries don't have surgical equipment. The
three biggest cruise companies - Carnival Corp. and PLC, Royal Caribbean
Cruises Ltd. and Star Cruises PLC - have all been sued over alleged shoddy
care on ships that led to passenger deaths or permanent health problems.
Many of those cases have been quietly settled, while others are still
pending. U.S. law generally favors cruise companies, which argue they
should not be held liable because most doctors are independent contractors.
AP| Posted
8:15 a.m.
<-- Herald:
Cruise lines liable for MDs
• Cruise lines are in dire need of changing their business
practices, as I've pointed out in a
previous commentary.
Send us your comments.
Airlines
to Discuss Privacy Policy
Top airline executives will meet in Washington this week to discuss
the development of an industry-wide privacy policy to protect consumers,
in light of disclosures last weekend that Northwest Airlines shared
passenger records with the U.S. government as part of a secret aviation
security project. Northwest chief executive Richard H. Anderson suggested
that the Air Transport Association, the industry's chief lobbying
group, discuss privacy standards at a meeting scheduled for Thursday,
the association said. The meeting will include chief operating officers
from the nation's top airlines. Washington
Post | Posted 7 a.m.
-- AP:
Privacy group files complaint over data shared
-- Press:
Groups
advise NWA to back down
-- Read
full text of the EPIC complaint
• Is sharing data with the government such a bad thing? After the JetBlue fiasco, columnist Charlie Leocha wondered why giving the feds information was so terrible. Send us your comments.
Defensive
Driving Strategies
It's not something we happy-go-lucky roadtrippers like to dwell upon,
but about 50,000 people die each year in collisions on the roadways
of the United States. By most estimates, over 22 million are injured.
The costs associated with such collisions are staggering — often quoted
at more than $80 billion. This carnage is unnecessary since nearly
all collisions are preventable. Here's how one defensive driving expert
stays safe. RoadTripAmerica
| Posted 7:20 a.m
.-- Star:
On the road, minus my cell phone
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• And finally ... a discussion is raging on the bulletin boards about which American city is the most dangerous. The honor seems to belong to Gary, Ind., which finished 2003 with the nation's highest per capita homicide rate for the ninth straight year. Posted 8:25 a.m. | Send us your comments.
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