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Help! I am Allergic to Apples and Was Kicked Off a Plane

Passengers traveling with carriers based in the United States, or with foreign carriers going to or from the United States, can file official disability-related complaints with the Transportation Department. And they should: Earlier this year, after reviewing a consumer complaint, the agency determined that passengers with food allergies must be allowed to pre-board — so […]

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Call It a Crime of Pasta

BARI DISPATCH The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life. BARI, Italy — The grandmothers set up shop early. Out of ground-floor kitchens that opened directly onto the street, they came out singing old songs, sweeping the stone floor and scattering

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How Hackers Can Use Your Boarding Pass To Easily Steal Personal Information

Etay Maor, chief security officer at global threat intelligence firm IntSights, travels often. In fact, he took more than 100 flights over the past year. During his trips, he noticed a troubling trend: Passengers leaving their boarding passes behind on the plane. “The problem is, people don’t realize that all your personal information is encoded

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House Hunting in the Canary Islands: A Villa Near the Ocean

A Classic Canary Island Villa Near the Coast $1.6 MILLION (1.49 MILLION EUROS) This three-bedroom, three-bathroom house is in Tacoronte, a rural city near the northeast coast of Tenerife, the largest island in Spain’s Canary Islands archipelago. The 4,844-square-foot house was built in the 18th century for Agustin de Torres Perdomo, a descendant of Canary

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Paris Might Be the Best City for Italian Food (Outside Italy)

“Italian food is like Japanese food,” he continued. “You can’t just add ingredients everywhere — you destroy years of history. The rule of two-to-three is good: main product, garnish, seasoning.” In the Marché d’Aligre food market, Mr. Tondo entered a butcher shop, Boucherie Les Provinces, and asked if they had received any recent visits from

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