Travel Desk

FEAR FACTOR
There's a new mood in travel these days-a steady and quietly pervasive neurosis. Wherever you go, it seems, there is something or someone waiting to screw you up. If it isn't the SARS superspreader in the next hotel room, it's some fool of a suicide bomber boarding your bus. Plan your itinerary, by all means. But first of all check the somber travel advisories and wild-eyed security alerts, the shrill breaking-news bulletins, the evacuation routes. And read the small print on your travel insurance.

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