My wife, Pat, and I have been fans of the Entertainment Book® (Entertainment Publications Operating Co., 1414 E. Maple Rd., Troy, MI 48083; 888/231-7283, www.entertainment.com), with dated coupons, for years. Usually sold by local fundraising groups, such as libraries, clubs and youth organizations, it offers opportunities to save up to 50% on dining, shopping and travel in major cities and geographic areas of the U.S. When planning our November ’06 trip to Australia, we found that the...

If you’ve recently been on a long plane trip more than five hours and have shortness of breath, you could easily have pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in the lungs). This potentially fatal condition was diagnosed in my husband, John, during a one-week interval after a flight from Shannon, Ireland, to Newark, New Jersey, in March ’07.

No, the sudden shortness of breath in this daily 2-mile jogger for 40 years was not caused by flu (which cleared up) or by heart problems (identical EKG...

Is British Airways discouraging business these days? Besides being among airlines offering the least space between seats, they also have implemented a policy forbidding selection of seats until 24 hours before travel. My wife and I tried for an upgrade, but none were available on our particular flight from Amsterdam to London to Miami scheduled for May 11, 2007.

Since we will be on tour the day before leaving Amsterdam, without access to telephones or computers, my six-foot-three...