You Don’t Need A Passport To Cross The Border, Exactly

I have carefully studied the details of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (also known as WHTI, which must mean something dirty in instant messaging) to determine decisively the answer to the question on everyone’s mind. To whit: “Do I need a passport to get back into the United States?”

The answer is: not always, exactly.

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Hope Fades For Missing Air France Flight

The Air France A330 that has gone missing between Rio and Paris “has almost certainly crashed with no survivors,” Britain’s Guardian reports. Air transportation has become so safe that we are now shocked when these things happen, but no human enterprise is entirely safe and so these things will happen.