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• No rental car, but they still have my money
Q: I'm having trouble with a car rental reservation that never went through. I thought I had secured a reservation through Hotwire.com for a car in St. Petersburg, Fla., using its "bill me later" option. When I printed out the details, I notice that ...
• Landing in Tehran — 30 years later
In summer, I flew from Istanbul's Ataturk Airport to Tehran's Khomeini Airport to film a public-television show on Iran. (“Rick Steves’ Iran” will air on PBS throughout the U.S. in mid-January.) For an American, it was eye-opening from the ...
• Winners’ in Madoff case face hard choices
NEW YORK - The many Bernard Madoff investors who withdrew money from their accounts over the years are now wrestling with an ethical and legal quandary. What they thought were profits was likely money stolen from other clients in what prosecutors are ...
• No credit cards, alcohol ... or urinals
Traveling through Iran to film a public television show, “Rick Steves’ Iran” (which will air on PBS throughout the U.S. in mid-January), I quickly filled up my notebook with quirky observations. One moment, I saw propaganda murals encouraging ...
• China's jobless migrants carry worries home
GUANGZHOU, China - Some hefted their luggage on bamboo shoulder poles. Others carried their belongings in plastic buckets. All were migrant workers hurrying to get home Thursday before China's Lunar New Year festival — a holiday that triggers one ...