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I find the secrecy around the report that Homeland Security and TSA are now going to allow stun guns on flights to and from the U.S. a little disturbing. Here's the Reuter's item: ...

This has nothing to do with meeting planning, but if you're as addicted to Google as I am, you might want to know that Microsoft has entered the search engine game with a beta version of its own search engine. ...

I guess it depends on who you ask. Yesterday's post had results of a poll that said the G8 countries are pretty fed up with everything U.S. Then this morning, the Travel Industry Association of America said that things were looking up for inbound...

According to this item on a poll by independent market research firm GMI, Inc., people from the G8 countries aren't so hot on the idea of coming to the U.S. for business, pleasure, and one would have to assume, meetings: ...

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Someone on the MIMlist listserve posted a link to this site, which hosts a collection of strange but true things. So many items to choose from, but a random sampling of my favorites: ...

This article is from 1997 and may not be totally correct, but its commentary about some of the more unusual associations cracked me up...

This is sort of off topic, but I was just playing around on this site where you can customize a map of the world (or portions thereof) to show where you've been. I never stopped to count it up before, but I've been to 16 countries so far. ...

...trying to do something fun and interactive and having it fall flat, or not trying at all and sticking with the boring old PowerPoint talking-head lecture that doesn't do much in terms of helping people actually learn something new? ...