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August 2012 issue | Appears on page 63

Aborigines of Sydney
By Julie Skurdenis
An Aboriginal painting in the Australian Museum — Sydney. Photo: Skurdenis
Finding examples of Australia’s Aboriginal 
culture in Sydney’s museums, galleries and public gardens
July 2012 issue | Appears on page 2

Transporting spare batteries on a flight. Also, EU mobile-phone-service providers' roaming rates capped.
By David Tykol
A glimpse of Delhi’s Red Fort. Photo by Elizabeth Habian, ITN

Dear Globetrotter:

Welcome to the 437th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine. Tell your overseas friends that ITN now posts content of current issues online, so they can avoid the costly postage and pay no more for their subscriptions than people living in the US.

Among the items I’m relating this month, this first one was particularly interesting to research.

Steve Jeffries of Centennial, Colorado, wrote, “My wife and I were preparing to board an Air India...

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July 2012 issue | Appears on page 58

The preexisting-condition clause
By Wayne Wirtanen
This article describes what a traveler needs to know about the preexisting-condition clause when deciding whether or not to purchase a policy that covers only overseas medical expenses and emergency-medical evacuation.
July 2012 issue | Appears on page 60

What’s Cooking in…Shanghai
By Sandra Scott
China. Secrets of The Peninsula Shanghai’s stir-fried duck breast dish
July 2012 issue | Appears on page 61

Preparing for your European adventure
By Rick Steves
Certain preparations make for a much smoother trip
July 2012 issue | Appears on page 62

Berlin’s Ethnological Museum ‘discovered’
By Julie Skurdenis
The painted Seler Lienzo II cloth from Mexico (c. 1600).
Ancient treasures amassed in Berlin, Germany’s, Ethnological Museum
June 2012 issue | Appears on page 2

The frequency of ferry disasters worldwide. Convert store gift cards to air miles.
By David Tykol

Dear Globetrotter: Welcome to the 436th issue of your monthly foreign-travel magazine.

On Sept. 10, 2011, off of Zanzibar, Tanzania, the ferry MV Spice Islander I — licensed to carry 600 passengers — sank, resulting in more than 2,200 people dead or missing. About 600 passengers survived. The ship was carrying 100 life vests.

On Feb. 2, 2012, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, the passenger ferry MV Rabaul Queen sank in rough weather on its way from the island of...

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June 2012 issue | Appears on page 58

Macau — A tale of two gardens
By Yvonne Horn
Two women performed morning exercises in the courtyard of Lou Lim Iok Garden.
Lou Lim Iok Garden and Luís de Camões Garden in Macau, China