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Travel 2025: ‘Friend-Finding Tours,’ Private Islands and a Mixed Bag of Prices

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According to Embark Beyond, when safari lodges in Botswana last year started charging $8,000 a night, the agencys bookings in the African country fell 35 percent. Many felt gouged by the run up in prices when travel came roaring back post-pandemic and the industry suffered from disruptions, understaffing and supply-chain issues.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. To help her cause, she and colleague Z.

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