Leisure Suit
Like bell bottoms, platform shoes, and mood rings, the leisure suit came to symbolize the swinging mid-1970s and its pervasive disco culture. The matching polyester jacket and pants often...
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Leisure Time
Despite the persistent complaints Americans make about not having enough free time, the twentieth century ushered in an unprecedented age of leisure. Economic developments, like the decre...
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Leisure
Since 1930 the sociology of leisure in North America and Europe has not developed in a linear or cumulative fashion. Rather, research agendas, the accepted premises for research and theory, an...
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Midwest Airlines was named best domestic airline in Travel + Leisure magazine's annual readers' survey.The Milwaukee-based airline has won the honor in the magazine's World's Best Awards eight out ...
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Florence, Italy, has replaced Sydney, Australia, as the No. 1 city in the world for travelers, according to Travel+Leisure's annual "World's Best" awards.
The list of award-winners is...
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A hotel in Egypt, a lodge in Tanzania and a company that helped launch the idea of carbon-neutral travel are among the winners of Travel + Leisure magazine's Global Vision Awards.
The...
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Luxury tent accommodations in Sri Lanka and South Africa made it onto Travel + Leisure magazine's "It List" of coolest hotels around the world.
The "It List," which appears in the June iss...
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Looking for inspiration or practical advice for planning your 2007 vacations?
Travel + Leisure magazine has just published "100 Greatest Trips," with sections on the U.S. and Canada; ...
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.
I’ve never taken a Caribb...
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Devils on the Deep Blue Sea: The Dreams, Schemes and Showdowns That Built America’s Cruise-Ship Empires, by Kristoffer A. Garin. Viking, 366 pages, $24.95.I’ve never taken a Caribbean c...
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Moments after it pulls out of the station, chugging into the dense cover of the Monongahela National Forest, the Shay locomotive begins its climb.The baking sun vanishes, the temperature drops and ...
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Leisure trips and travel spending are expected to continue modest growth through 2008, but travel preferences are changing, according to the Travel Industry Association's annual forecast.Travel spe...
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Hamburg (dpa) - It started hurting as he lay on the ground. "All
of a sudden I felt a stabbing pain," recalled Steffen Schneider, a
35-year-old amateur footballer.
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