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It's time for a new approach to travel

  • Written by Randy Malamud, Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
As Mark Twain once said, 'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.'Jake Simonds-Malamud, CC BY-SA

When I overcame a flying phobia, I resolved to make up for lost time by visiting as much of the world as I could.

So in the course of a decade, I logged over 300,000 miles, flying everywhere from Buenos Aires to Dubai.

I knew...

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