Only a month into the new year, people everywhere are staking out the nicely mnemonic date of 07/07/07 (and all those lucky sevens) for their own purposes.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 10/8/06.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 5/6/06

A Swiss organization is currently holding a public competition to come up with a new set of seven wonders – sites that we can celebrate while we still have them, and which represent a global, rather than Classical, heritage.

The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting, Machu Picchu is about to slide into the abyss, and tourists are carting off pieces of the temple at Luxor on a daily basis.