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In this issue. Should you take a “nakation”? Also, is the health-care debate missing something? (Yes, it is.) And what should we do about Queen Mary’s little gas problem?
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• 5 reasons to bare it all on your next vacation (MSNBC.com)
• The health-care gap that traps travelers (The Washington Post)
• Queen Mary’s little gas problem
• Tarmac delay hall of shame: Delta, American — please take a bow!
• Victim of seatback police: “It felt like we had somehow landed in a World War II movie”
• Minimum-wage pilots? Here’s one way of looking at flight deck salaries
• One airline ticket for the price of two?
• Bad news, bargain-hounds: “The worst appears to be over” for lodging industry
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