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No, Americans shouldn't fear traveling abroad

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Senior lecturer, Boston University
Just another American abroad.AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko

As summer travel season begins, friends and relatives have asked me if it’s safe to travel outside the U.S.

I understand their fears. The news is filled with scary stories, like a tourist bus being bombed near Egypt’s pyramids, people being knifed at a bus stop in Japan and continuing...

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