Too many people make the dangerous roundtrip from hospital to nursing facility and back again.

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Welch, who was already walking 3.5 miles a day roundtrip to work, started taking water aerobics three times a week and swimming again competitively.

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The average trip will stretch 626 miles, though 54% of those surveyed said their Labor Day excursion will fall between 100 and 400 miles roundtrip.

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As a group of MIT grad students found, one roundtrip domestic flight on one airline can yield tens of millions of different possibilities for routes and fares.

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Seeing that sales did go up they decided to expand the offer, to two roundtrip tickets to the US. Which is where the roof really started falling in.

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The Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Premier credit card is now offering 50, 000 points after your first purchase, enough for two free roundtrip flights to almost anywhere Southwest flies.

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We based the latter on prices from Kayak.com for a roundtrip coach flight from a New York-area airport to each country's capital, departing on Friday, June 12 and returning Sunday, June 21.

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It authorizes the transaction and sends bits whizzing back, a 39, 000-kilometer roundtrip journey that involves five stops plus a calculation of how much to charge the merchant in fees and how to divvy up those fees among the banks.

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Satellite, surprisingly, came out as having the best throughput although before you rush out to get satellite service remember that the roundtrip latency (the time it takes a data packet to go from your PC to its destination and for an acknowledgement to come back) over a satellite connection is often in the range of 900 milliseconds to 1, 400 milliseconds.

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