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Before we get going, let me tie up a couple of loose ends from last week's column about the travel habits of Americans (or should I say nontravel habits), which got something of a quarrel going on the letters board. "Lots of Americans don't travel overseas, true," begins one of the posts. "But then people from other nations don't either, or if they do mostly it is just organized vacation… » Full Story on Salon.com