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- LATITUDES AND ATTITUDE ALISON DAROSA
The 'air war' against the flu
One in five airplane passengers comes down with a cold within one week of flying, according to the Centers for Disease Control – and each year nearly 50 million Americans are infected by the flu.
- Some extra time to get that passport
Travelers flying to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean have been given a short reprieve on an early January deadline requiring them to have passports.
- REPORT FROM MEXICO MARIBETH MELLIN
Cancun back victorious, vibrant
Mother Nature is gently nurturing Cancún back to life, helping Mexico's most lucrative tourist destination reclaim its tropical beauty. Palm trees fringed with healthy green fronds hide most traces of Hurricane Wilma's frenzied attack back in October 2005.
- Skiing industry picking up speed after dip
After stagnating throughout the 1980s and '90s, visits to ski areas in the United States reached a record last winter, with skiers and snowboarders logging some 58.9 million trips to the slopes, a study for the National Ski Areas Association reported.
- A warm place in Austrians' hearts
Not that sliding down on snow with boards lashed to your feet is all that safe a thing to do on a mountain range, but it was once so dangerous just to walk through the high passes of Austria's Arlberg region that, in his first year of trying, a local man saved seven lives.
- PICTURE OF THE WEEK IMAGES FROM AFAR
That cold day in the park
Matthew Crisci of Carlsbad is a native New Yorker, and he prides himself on capturing pleasing scenes of his hometown. He took 20 late-afternoon shots in Central Park before the perfect light allowed him to capture this scene of a bridge and its surroundings dusted with a light snowfall.
- In transit
Got Olympic dreams? Now is the time to register for bobsled-driving school at Park City's Utah Olympic Park.
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