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Travel: How to cover the costs of disaster

Whether your cruise ship crashes or you simply become too sick to step onto an airplane, there are ways to protect yourself when a trip doesnt go as planned.

More and more travellers are buying trip insurance, spurred to pay out for protection as events ranging from unrest in Egypt to Iceland’s volcanic ash clouds have raised the profile of travel disruptions.

But even with more people buying travel insurance that does not mean travellers have all the protection they need.

There are different types of coverage, and the industry has a reputation for finding reasons not to pay out – most commonly if a claim is based on a pre-existing condition,...

Time Travel at the Met, Thanks to CDs


For insatiable opera buffs, there can never be too much of a good thing. These consumers are certainly in the sights of Sony Classical and the Metropolitan Opera, who are collaborating on a project to release no-frills, remastered recordings of historic live Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Met.

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