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Alcohol and hot weather can be an especially dangerous mix. Drinking impairs judgment and increases risk-taking any time. In hot weather, you add the potential risk of heat stroke caused by dehydration. That’s because alcohol lowers the body’s tolerance for heat and acts as a diuretic, meaning it causes the body to lose more fluid
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Choose one of these local or national charities to support with a donation to help victims with life-saving food, water, clothing and medical services, and start the rebuilding, including roads and power lines.
Beaches are supposed to be serene escapes, where you can hear the sound of the surf. But many are full of buzzing phones, crowded boardwalks or party crowds blaring loud music. These US beaches are top-rated for being calm, quiet and relaxing, based on online reviews which include at least one of those words.
There’s a bounty of the Bard in NYC this summer, with multiple local theater groups performing Shakespeare dramas and comedies in multiple NYC parks, including such favorites as Hamlet and All’s Well that Ends Well. It’s all FREE and outdoors.
After more than a decade of promises and hype, Tesla has activated its first robotaxi service, in Austin, close to the company’s headquarters. Like Waymo when it first started, there’s a live person in the driver seat ready to take the controls to steer or stop the car if the AI doesn’t work as programmed. Here’s what top media and Tesla fans are saying.
With clogged roads and flight cancellations and delays, this is a good time avoid them both and take the train. These are the best scenic train trips in the USA, ranging from a few hours to a few days, including on vintage steam trains.
Swiss trains are famous for running on time, including through the mountains and valleys of the equally famous Swiss Alps. Now, some of those trains are powered by solar panels deployed along the railway tracks.
Once again, Frontier Airlines is offering its all-you-can-fly unlimited passes, one for annual travel, the other just for summer. There’s also a monthly unlimited pass. All you pay are taxes, fees, and a one penny processing fee for each flight.
Get ready for clogged roads and airports. AAA predicts more than 45 million of us will be on the move over Memorial Day weekend, the largest number in 20 years, and more than one million more than last year. Not surprisingly, nearly everybody will be traveling by car – more than 39 million of us – also an increase of one million compared with last year, and also a record.
Every year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation tells us which treasured sites are most in danger, because of damage by hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, or simply old age. These endangered sites can be a single building or an entire downtown area, and include examples of how communities are taking the lead to preserve and find
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