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...effort to gain operating efficiencies and to outmaneuver rivals, some of Europe's main rail operators are already forming partnerships. SNCF, for example, runs a high-speed Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam-Cologne service called Thalys along with Belgian rail operator Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Belge (SNCB) and Germany's Deutsche Bahn (DB). DB also uses the French company's track to operate its high-speed Intercity-Express (ICE) trains between eastern France and Paris. But, despite their cooperation on some routes, DB and SNCF are locking horns over Eurostar. The French have a majority stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Train Travel: Working on the Railroad | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...could it be that the underlying assumption behind the program is wrong? Last week at the European Congress on Obesity in Amsterdam, a team of researchers from Peninsula Medical School in the U.K. presented findings from a painstaking study of physical activity in 206 children ages 7 to 11 from three schools in and around Plymouth, on the southern coast of England. Kids at the first school, an expensive private academy, got an average of 9.2 hours per week of scheduled P.E. Kids at the other two schools - one in a village near Plymouth and the other an urban school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Business Class Twofer. Get free companion tickets in business class on Openskies from New York City's Kennedy Airport or Newark to Paris or Amsterdam. So, you and your traveling partner can get access to the private lounge before boarding and, once on board, luxury service and lie-flat beds. A round-trip flight to Amsterdam costs $3,400, and to Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Remote Getaways | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...deeply regret the theft and hope the works are traced soon," according to a statement from the museum, which is 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Amsterdam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gunmen Take Dali Works from Dutch Museum | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...travel to New York and Massachusetts to visit old friends because she worries the airline will cancel her flight. "If I book a ticket and end up losing it because of travel restrictions, I may not get my money back," she says. "Maybe I'll go see somebody in Amsterdam instead." Apparently not even a deadly virus can kill the travel bug in some folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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