The treaty takes aim at chemicals that can travel long distances in the environment and don't break down easily.
But I am thinking more in the long term, particularly in regard to large-scale space travel, colonization and commerce.
The cost of living in some remote areas, where almost all goods must travel a long way, can be as high as in the U.S. But quieter, less flashy places are easier on the wallet.
In reality, I long had aspired to travel the world for a year, inspired by a documentary I saw in high school about trans-Siberian trains.
Although the controversy about long-haul air travel has recently put DVT in the headlines, the condition was first described in people sitting on deckchairs in air raid shelters during the Blitz in London.
According to McKinsey Global Institute, the consultancy's research arm, global long-haul travel increased by 31% in the decade to 2009 while foreign visitors to America (excluding from Canada and Mexico) dropped by 2m, to 24m.
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After like 2 hours, my grandmother came into the bathroom and proceeded to tell me this story about a prince covered in dirt that could only travel via soap bubbles and how he stayed in the bath too long and ended up washing away before he could get the princess.
Travel experts in the UK have long been puzzled by the reluctance of Britons to explore Germany.
Rivera said he will miss being on the field but not the long travel and many nights in hotels.
"Looper, " a thriller about time-traveling mob victims which opens next week, is the latest in a long list of books, movies and TV shows wrestling with the complexities of time travel.
This could bounce back quickly with economic recovery in America and, provided that cost increases from environmental measures are not too onerous, the long-haul travel on which BA's profitability depends should revive in time.
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The cost of living in some remote areas like Cabo San Lucas, where almost all goods must travel a long way, can be just as high as in the U.S. But quieter and less flashy places like the Lake Chapala area, home to maybe 10, 000 American and Canadian retirees, are easier on the wallet.
The company currently employs three different fleets of drivers: long-haul truckers who live in one city but can travel all over the country, regional drivers who drive within a 500-mile radius of their homes, and dedicated fleets for specific customers.
The system was long known as the Mobil Guide, launched in 1958 and (according to Wikipedia) the oldest travel rating guide in the US. Now known as the Forbes Travel Guide, it still employs the same detailed methodology of incognito, expert inspectors paying their own way and running through amazingly detailed checklists covering all sorts of obvious and obscure guest details.
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If you like to do a little time travel with your present-day travel, the Queen Mary Hotel in Long Beach, California is a great place for a weekend getaway.
British Overseas Air Corporation was a precursor to BA, concentrating on long-haul routes in the early years of mass air travel.
She acknowledged that telephone wait times remained long and reiterated that passengers without travel plans in the next 72 hours should wait until later to call.
Saharan desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis have to travel long distances to discover food in their impoverished, sandy environment.
"It has got to be in the long-term that we explore the ways of attracting people to that active travel, " he said.
At Glasgow Airport, officials said the rise in passengers was down to strong demand for domestic and long-haul travel, coupled with Lufthansa Regional's launch of direct flights to Dusseldorf.
But he says his first game in charge, against England, is just the start of a long road the team must travel.
Together they have a young daughter and plan to travel long term again in a couple of years, armed with the knowledge and experience Dowd has already gained.
Increasingly, couples denied treatment in more restricted countries, such as the UK and France, are prepared to travel long distances to find doctors who are prepared to push the boundaries.
"We look forward to working with the local community, schools, local authorities, the Welsh assembly and others to find a long-term solution to the difficulties that we all face in ensuring that our children travel safely to and from school, " he added.
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But, in the future, money will be handled much more quickly, and it will travel over very long and very crooked paths.
Whilst much of the attention surrounding scramjets has focussed on the shorter journey times they could bring to long-haul passenger air travel, the first applications are likely to be in the space delivery business - launching small payloads, such as communications satellites, into orbit.
His 76 years do suggest his papacy will not be long, and a pope in his 50s would have more energy to clean out the Curia and travel the world.
But if the trail is 2, 000 miles long, to average 20 miles a day you would have to travel the entire trail in 100 days.
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