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• Ads serve as distraction from root canals
NEW YORK - Talk about your captive audience. Advertising is coming to the dentist's chair in the form of personal video goggles that patients wear while getting their cleaning or root canal. The company behind InChairTV figures advertisers for ...
• Autumn escapes in Europe
Petersburg, with its placid canals framed by grand Baroque palaces, top theaters and opera houses—dark for the dog days of summer—launch into their fall seasons with gusto. "Swan Lake" takes to the main stage at the majestic Mariinsky Theater ...
• Haiti could face famine after floods
Hundreds of irrigation basins, canals and pumping stations were damaged, and about 10,000 tons of discounted fertilizer distributed to farmers disappeared. Altogether, Gue estimated the storms caused $180 million in damage to Haiti's agricultural ...
• Wide Ike and shallow coast mean strong surge
Houston is buffered by Galveston Island — which sits in the way of the surge — and the bay system, but still is likely to get a rush of high water as the bay, rivers and canals fill up, McGee said. And water that rushes into Galveston Bay may not ...
• Great car-free vacations
Luxury barges float along at a few miles per hour, most often through the canals and rivers of France, Holland, England, Scotland or Ireland. You can charter an entire barge that holds between six and 20 passengers and comes complete with captain and ...