Nothing kills a vacation faster than getting sick. You’ve waited months, perhaps years, for this trip and sure enough, you arrive at your destination, and all those alien germs you’ve never been exposed to before decide to play pig-pile on you and you catch the flu. Or you pick up the dreaded airplane [...]

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“A single woman on vacation in Vegas. . .alone?”
“Yeah. Weird. We’re looking into it.”
(CSI Investigator Nick Stokes and Captain Jim Brass, CSI, “Play With Fire”)

The above exchange, when it first aired on TV in 2003, sparked quite a few outraged posts on some Las Vegas message boards I frequent. Mostly by women like me, some [...]

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