In this view of Indian-Canadian family life, a grandma can guilt-trip even a god.

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Luria says if the problem is in between minor and life-threatening, it could well be worth the trip to the children's hospital.

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His heroes were Lewis and Clark, the intrepid explorers of the new American continent, and the field-trip grants he founded in later life were named after them.

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In countries like Vietnam and India where many people still get around on bicycle, visitors often find that cycling for all or part of their trip can offer the greatest opportunity to appreciate local life--the scents, sights and sounds that pass you by if you're whizzing through town in a taxi on the way to and from your hotel.

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To get his head straight again, Woodman lit out on a surf odyssey through Australia and Indonesia, one last big trip before what he figured would become a life of comfortable middle-class monotony.

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With the airspace having been closed, a marathon trek started with a train journey from Nottingham to London, followed by a faster, sleeker train from London to Brussels and then the longest road trip of my life to the destination for Saturday's WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler.

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But life has gotten in the way and Ricotta has been too busy to make the 30-minute trip from her suburban home near Fenton to the downtown St.

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Casie Stewart, a 28-year-old social-media consultant from Toronto, has earned a free Virgin America flight, a shopping splurge at Mark's Work Wearhouse and an all-expenses-paid trip to New Zealand fashion week thanks to her prolific tweeting and blogging about her life.

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