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HIV's march around Europe mapped

HIV's march around Europe mapped

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Those travelling abroad should take seriously advice to pack their condoms and keep their needles to themselves: research published today in the open access journal Retrovirology shows that tourists, travel ...





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Presence of safety measures affects people's trust in the safety of tourist destinations

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to the asymmetry principle of trust, information on negative events decreases trust to a much higher extent than information on positive events increases trust. A new study in the journal Risk Analysis examined whethe ...


Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network

Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (33) | comments 3

It wasn't too long ago in human history that people rarely, if ever, traveled beyond the village they were born in. We've come a long way since then: according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international ...


Russian ship with tourist docks with space station: reports

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi along with a US and a Russian astronaut docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as ...


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Russian ship with tourist docks with space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as saying.


The end of the line for space tourism?

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A US software mogul who made history this week as the first person to travel to space twice as a tourist could also be the last paying passenger to head into space for several years.


Outer Banks area may be losing its charm

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created Mar 30, 2006 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A National Geographic Society official says the Outer Banks areas off North Carolina are in danger of losing their charm.


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Space tourism from Sweden to start in 2012

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Short tourist flights into space are expected to begin launching from northern Sweden in 2012, one of the companies involved in the project said Wednesday.


Cargo craft docks with space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A cargo ship has delivered food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the International Space Station.


Russia signs deal to ferry astronauts in 2012 (AP)

Russia signs deal to ferry astronauts in 2012

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Russian space agency says it has signed a $306 million deal with NASA to ferry its astronauts to the international space station in 2012.


US space tourist blasts off to space station (AP)

US space tourist blasts off to space station

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Russian capsule carrying U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi sailed into orbit Thursday after blasting off in a roar of fire for the international space station.



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