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...almost all their travel online. Last year 4 out of 5 Americans who arranged trips on the Web also bought their tickets online, up from 70% in 2004. Now a new generation of travel sites is making trip planning cheaper, more efficient and more fun. Here's a quick tour of the top new tools...
...year-old daughter attends daycare in her hometown of Lexington, Mass., says she did not even complete the formal application process for Harvard’s child care facilities because she did not think her daughter was likely to be admitted. One center did not invite her for a tour so as not to get her hopes up, she says.According to Martin, Harvard’s provisions for the care of faculty members’ children do not compare favorably to those made by other schools.She cites MIT as one school with more daycare centers at closer proximity to professors?...
...Yard space. As arbiter, the administration has prioritized space for non-student run organizations that focus on racial, sexual, and gender differences between students. In place of student groups with diverse memberships, the Yard will soon host organizations that promote a politically-correct image of diversity at Harvard. Tour groups will eat it up. Yet this image is cynical and utterly incorrect. McLoughlin’s plan is forcing Harvard’s largest student groups out of the Yard in favor of, among other things, a new women’s center. The last meeting held on planning...
...questions of a highly important nature. Their target is the writer Neil Gaiman, whose fantasy book for kids The Wolves in the Walls has just been made into a musical that opened in Glasgow last month and transferred to London's Lyric Theatre for two weeks before going on tour in Scotland next month and England this fall. Gaiman explains to his young fans that the book was inspired by a nightmarish fantasy his daughter Maddy once had. The children are rigorous cross-examiners. "But from where exactly in her bedroom did the wolves appear?" a skeptical 8-year...
...BRAG MORE. White House officials who track coverage of Bush in media markets around the country said he garnered his best publicity in months from a tour to promote enrollment in Medicare's new prescription-drug plan. So they are planning a more focused and consistent effort to talk about the program's successes after months of press reports on start-up difficulties. Bolten's plan also calls for more happy talk about the economy. With gas prices a heavy drain on Bush's popularity, his aides want to trumpet the lofty stock market and stable inflation and interest rates...