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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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It’s possible to double the daily rate of your rental car with add-ons such as insurance, a second driver, navigation system, toll road pass, car seat or bike rack. If you haven’t rented a vehicle in a while, it’s worth reviewing the rental do and don’t rules to save money, even legal grief.
Depending on the airline you are flying, you could be denied boarding for wearing revealing tank tops or crop tops, shorts, t-shirts with political or sexual messages or four-letter words, low-hanging pants that show underwear or a butt crack, low necklines that show too much cleavage, even flip-flops. Here are the airline dress code rules you need to know.
National Tire Safety Week is June 30 to July 4 – a good time to be reminded about the importance of proper tire care. Bad weather, stop-and-go traffic or long road trips can spell disaster if you are driving on tires with worn out treads, by increasing the length you need to stop and decreasing performance and handling. These tips will help you know when to rotate or buy new ones.
Travel insurance is as essential as auto insurance and homeowner’s insurance. Software glitches and severe weather mean cancelled and delayed flights, missing a cruise or a wedding, not just your luggage. Simply, never leave home without it. The choice is which kind of coverage you want to buy, and whether it is a per-trip policy or annual coverage.
Hurricane season brings battering winds, torrential rains and potentially dangerous wet and flooded roads, as do heavy rainstorms. These safe driving tips for rain and hurricane season could save a life – yours, a passenger, pedestrian or those in another vehicle. Know also that some higb-tech safety systems like lane departure warnings may not work
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Things have to be really bad when an airline advises flying into or out of one of its major hubs, and offers free flight changes to another airport. But that’s exactly what United has done with the ongoing melt-down at Newark Airport. United Airlines has slashed more than thirty daily flights at Newark Airport, due
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It’s a spring thing. April showers bring May flowers. And potholes. Here’s how to avoid pothole damage to your vehicle, which can cost repair bills from an average $300 to more than $1,000.
The best and and most popular lat night TV shows are taped in NYC, and tickets are FREE for all the shows. Here’s how to get them to be in the audience. All the shows have similar rules about attendance, including to prevent the FREE tickets from being sold, and to prevent fights on the
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United Airlines is slashing more than thirty daily flights from Newark Airport, due to a combination of FAA staffing shortages and one of the airport’s three runways out of service for repaving. Newark is a main hub for United, so it is utter chaos, with some passengers stranded by cancelled flights and others delayed for
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