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Brian Kelly, the Points Guy, Shares Tips on Reward Travel

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Some examples: Ive been to the Maldives, Paris and Japan on rewards points. Cheap is expensive, too, when you account for fees and a bad experience. I plan on giving them this character-building experience when I dont have to be there with them! If it was so easy for everyone in the world to use, it wouldnt exist.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. The most important environmental summit in the history of the world has concluded in Copenhagen. Asian Development Bank.

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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia

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Wandering alone along the southern fringes of Saudi Arabia’s mountainous Asir Province, some eight miles from the Yemeni border, in a nondescript town with a prominent sculpture of a rifle balanced on an ornately painted plinth, I met a man, Nawab Khan, who was building a palace out of mud.