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Keeping Up With Expenses - NeatReceipts
The end of a business trip is always my favorite part - until I look at the pile of unorganized receipts I have accumulated and realize that sorting through them... Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Checking out Wilmington and Cape Fear, in coastal North Carolina
North Carolina has become steadily more popular with gay and lesbian travelers in recent years, especially as the state itself continues to become a bit more moderate politically, and even... What's in Your Back Yard?
Yesterday I took some visiting friends to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. We spent a very pleasant hour and a half walking around this historic campus... Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) for Business Travel to the U.S.
Until very recently (Jan 12, 2009), the Visa Waiver Program permitted business and tourist travelers to the U.S. the ability to stay in the States for up to 90 days...
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