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		<title>English anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the joys of being English speaking is that we can almost travel anywhere and expect to find the local people fluent to some extent in English.  The summer of 2008, we visited Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary and had not issues talking with people (well, actually we had a little communication problems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=380&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passengers Bill of Rights &#8230; update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a free market person, but only when the free market works.  In my opinion, I do not think that the free market is working when it comes to passengers and airlines.  I am also a skeptical of government intervention, because the situation typically does not improve &#8230; that&#8217;s as positive as I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=197&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A case of big brother or a little help with your international travels?</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/a-case-of-big-brother-or-a-little-help-with-your-international-travels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost time for me to start planning my summer holiday and every trip I debate whether or not I want help &#8230; from a travel agency and almost for every trip I research my destinations myself with a little help from Frommer&#8217;s and Expedia, and depending on the place, the United States Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=189&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I learned from &#8220;Joe&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/what-i-learned-from-joe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The summer of 2007, I visited Johannesburg, South Africa and I learned a couple of things from &#8220;Joe.&#8221;  The first thing that I learned upon arriving in Johannesburg was that the warnings about crime were not exaggerated, but beyond this I learned quite a few things from Joe. 
Joe was our driver while we were visiting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=159&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What anti-Americanism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the United States&#8217; invasion of Iraq, a certain segment of the population, specifically liberals and left of center individuals have pointed to poll after poll, stating that anti-Americanism is on the rise or at all time highs.  Some have gone as far to suggest that international travel could be perilously for US citizens.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=187&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jo&#8217;burg, a truly wired city</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/joburg-a-truly-wired-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 2007, I visited Johannesburg, South Africa to present a paper on culture and medical education at Wits University.  I was &#8220;culturally shocked&#8221; and found the lingering and persistent effect of Apartheid pulsing throughout the city and its character.
We didn&#8217;t stay exactly in Jo&#8217;burg, as the citizens call the city, we were in one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=158&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JNB … the worst airport in the world! Part III</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/jnb-%e2%80%a6-the-worst-airport-in-the-world-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been very critical of Johannesburg airport and they deserve it, but the problems with their airport runs much deeper than confusion, lack of organization, and rude incompetent employees.
While in South Africa, I learned that the country has a quota policy for employment where blacks are at the top of the quota system, followed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=164&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airport security &#8230; doesn&#8217;t inspire confidence</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/airport-security-doesnt-inspire-confidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but airport security does not really make me feel secure.  I am not hypersensitive about security, and think that some of our responses to September 11 was reasonable, while many were not.
Every time that I fly and see security make people throw away half empty 4oz tubes of toothpaste and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=48&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ugly American &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-ugly-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, as I was flying Delta, I decided to read the Delta magazine, a mix of interesting articles, advertisement, and self promotion. One interesting piece that I found was about how we, Americans, are perceived in Europe. According to this piece, Europeans do not hate us, as we may think.
I must say that I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=24&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contradictions, Conflict, and the Legacy of Apartheid &#8212; Cape Town, South Africa</title>
		<link>http://walkingates.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/contradictions-conflict-and-the-legacy-of-apartheid-cape-town-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting Cape Town, South Africa was one of the most conflicted trips I have taken to date. The country is beautiful, has a thriving wine industry, has a diverse mix of cultures and ethnicities, and is one of the more stable countries on the continent. However, the entire time that I spent in the country, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=walkingates.wordpress.com&blog=2114140&post=7&subd=walkingates&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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