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Karen and Bob Carifee, a married couple from Texas, were sitting on the beach in Dubai watching the sunset on Saturday when they heard a loud noise and saw the luxury Fairmont hotel just across the water get hit, with black smoke billowing into the sky.”I’m like, ‘Are you kidding…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cody Greene, a 36-year-old from Tampa who has been in Dubai since Friday. It has been edited for length and clarity.I arrived in Dubai Friday night local time, planning to stay for a week. I’m a business development manager at a…
There are an estimated 7,800 children on US military childcare waitlists. Military families and advocates say the number masks deeper shortfalls that continue to sideline working spouses and strain service members.Lawmakers raised the issue during a recent congressional hearing, calling the persistent backlog a quality-of-life problem, even as the waitlist…
My family expected the usual post-holiday travel blues after spending Christmas and New Year’s on an ultra-luxury Caribbean cruise. What we did not expect was to get stranded the moment we stepped off the ship.On Saturday morning, we disembarked our ship in Barbados and boarded a prearranged island sightseeing tour…
