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Gadlinks for Thursday 8.20.09

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Aug 20th 2009 at 1:00PM

Time for your daily dose of Gadlinks, Gadling's look at all the crazy, mixed-up comings-and-goings in the world of travel...

Over at Bootsnall, Chris Clark offers 7 reasons why the Gulf Coast's "Redneck Riviera" beats St. Tropez. (This redneck couldn't agree more.)
The New York Times profiles Kiev's eccentric mayor, Leonid Chernovetsky. ("When Parliament members said [the mayor] was acting bizarrely and needed a psychiatric exam, he went to a stadium where he jogged for the cameras before yanking off his shirt and doing pull-ups. He swam laps and flexed his muscles like Charles Atlas. Then he held a news conference - in his tiny bathing suit.")
Stranded on the tarmac for hours? USA Today explains your options. (Hint: You don't have any.)
Humorist David Sedaris takes on Australia in the most recent New Yorker. [HT: World Hum]
Could this be the foreign aid paradigm of the future?

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