Roving Without Rover, Curious Teens, Etc.

travel marketers need to offer pet-sitting services. In a poll conducted for Orbitz, adults were asked to cite the “barriers or obstacles” that keep them from taking vacations or weekend jaunts. Twenty-three percent mentioned “arranging for someone to take care of pets,” making that factor second only to “taking care of work schedule(s) or responsibility when away” (28 percent). Are people so tied to work that they can’t use their vacation time? That’s a myth: 91 percent used up all their vacation time in 2004 or made arrangements to roll it over for 2005.



What do they want to be if they grow up? An annual survey of college freshmen by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute gives a clue.