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That's Sick! 9 Ways to Avoid the Bug When You Travel

Why you should always wash your hands, and eight things you should avoid when you're traveling, courtesy of this column's readers and the lessons current events have taught us.

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Travel Health & Safety: Buying Insurance

Can insurance keep a Caribbean hurricane, an English flood, or a Colorado mudslide from ruining your next vacation?

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4 Secrets for the Perfectly Timed Vacation

If you've seen one tourism brochure that refers to itself as a 'year-round' destination, you've probably seen them all. They lie, of course.

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Travel Troubleshooter: No Refunds for the Dead

A couple plans a 50th anniversary trip to Europe, but one spouse dies unexpectedly. Shouldn't the airline give the survivor a refund rather than vouchers?

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Travel Troubleshooter: Hey, Where's My Airline Seat?

Half of our reader's airline seat is missing. An extra-large passenger is sitting in it, forcing her to lean into the aisle or sit on the passenger's lap. What can she do?

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Travel Health & Safety: Decoding Airlines' Special Meals

Don't make enemies with your stomach when you fly: Find out how to get a better meal before you take off again.

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Travel Insurance: When You Need it and What You Need to Ask

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

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The Travel Insurance Question: Do I Really Need It?

It may be a good time to be in the travel insurance business, but is it a good time to buy travel insurance?

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5 Things Airlines Won't Tell You About Their Food

Although some airlines have made an effort to improve the food, there are a few things they aren't telling you about the fare up there.

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Travel Writing 101: What Exactly is Travel?

Anyone can be a travel writer. But what makes a travel writer different from, say, a mystery writer, or one who crafts sentences about romance, children's stories or even humor?

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Travel Tech: Do Air Purifiers Work on Plane Trips?

Our health expert makes sense of the mini purifiers that promise to make your next trip sniffle free.

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Travel Troubleshooter: No Room, No Refund, No Fair?

What if you prepay for a hotel but there's no room for you? Our guest gets the run around from his New York hotel and Priceline.com Did he get what he deserves?

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Travel Health & Safety: 7 Food Allergy Tips

You needn't stay home or court disaster: By preparing for the worst you can sail through most situations with little or no effort on your part.

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Travel Troubleshooter: Plenty of Rain, But No Raincheck for Leaky Hotel

What happens when a storm threatens to ruin a vacation, but the booking agent won't let you reschedule?

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Travel Health & Safety: Plenty of Fish in the Sea?

Here are some tips on avoiding becoming sick as a result of eating fish while you are on the road -- or at home, for that matter.

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Travel Health & Safety: Are You Going to Eat That?

Getting sick from something you ate is bad enough at home, but ten times worse when you're traveling.

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Travel Health & Safety: Can I Drink the Water?

A tall glass of water isn't always all it's cracked up to be. What water wisdom you need to know before your next trip.

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Expert Advice for Minimizing Flight Delays

After one of the worst summers for air travel in years, what can you do to make your next flight more enjoyable?

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Travel Health & Safety: How Clean is Your Airplane's Air?

You have no choice but to breathe it, often for hours at a time. So what's keeping it safe most of the time, and how safe is it, really?

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Travel Health & Safety: Smart Resouces for World Travelers

Intelligent travelers go by the old folk saying, 'Plan for the worst, hope for the best.' Here's planning advice that'll make your trip the best.

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How to Spa: Answers to Questions You're Afraid to Ask

We've taken all your unasked questions to the experts, everything from how much to tip to what the therapist is really thinking when youÂ?re naked on the massage table.

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Why You Should Buy Insurance Before Your Next Cruise

It's not difficult to imagine all of the things that could go wrong on a cruise: hurricanes, political upheaval and a sudden illness are just some of the snafus. On the other hand, how…

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Travel Insurance Tips From a Broken-Thumbed Tourist

Fortunately for global travelers, the travel health insurance options are many and, not surprisingly, widely available on the Internet. Best of all, travel insurance includes many more…

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All Hands Off Deck! A Hands-On Guide to Fighting a Shipboard Norovirus

On board viruses start like this: One infected passenger comes aboard, leaves his germs on a handrail and all of a sudden everyone's sick -- just like kindergarten. Though major…

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Thailand Now, After the Coup

For tourists, Thailand feels almost exactly the same as it did before the coup d'état. The main difference? The tanks and soldiers stationed in and around Bangkok have become tourist…