Ed Perkins
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"Edwin Arend Perkins", is a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007.

He obtained his PhD in 1979 under the supervision of Frank Bardsley Knight at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dissertation titled 'A Nonstandard Approach to Brownian Local Time'.

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Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

I think we're talking a minimum of 20 years and maybe 30 since something like this happened.

You can do something in about every price range. You can buy a $10,000 cruise all the way down to a $10 gadget in a travel store.

Since labor action falls into the same category as 'Act of God' and 'Act of War,' the carriers have no legal obligation to do anything for the consumer.

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Passengers are saying, 'I won't accept the offer; I want a better one,' .

As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.

Brian's progressed a lot from last year. He's come a long way and he's running the ball now.

The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.