ON THE MOVE; NEWS, TIPS & BARGAINS : SUNNY MONEY.Byline: - Daily News Wire Services San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. is offering Sunny Money, a money-saving coupon book to make a visit to the city more affordable. More than 100 offerings for hotels and attractions such as the San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo One of the world's largest collections of mammals, birds, and reptiles, located in San Diego, Calif., and administered by the Zoological Society of San Diego. The 100-acre (40. , San Diego Wild Animal Park The San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park is a zoo in the San Pasqual Valley area of San Diego, California. It is one of the largest tourist attractions in the city and Southern California. and Sea World are included. For a free copy, write to the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau, 401 B St., Suite 1400, Dept. 700C-98, San Diego, Calif. 92101; or call (619) 236-1212. Airline offer Sabena Airlines is celebrating its 75th anniversary by offering a $75 companion ticket to Brussels with the purchase of an economy-class ticket, special nonrefundable apex fare, or higher-priced ticket from Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of or Cincinnati. Tickets must be purchased by May 31 with an American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Card. Travel must be completed by Dec. 31. Insuring a cruise Robert Jarvis, a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University History Originally named Nova University of Advanced Technology,[7] the university was chartered by the state of Florida in 1964[8][9] as a graduate institution in the physical and social sciences. in Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla., said that the Titanic disaster was a good example of why cruise passengers should buy trip insurance. Before 1936, if a ship sank, its owners' liability was zero, said Jarvis, who also is editor in chief of the Journal of Maritime Law maritime law, system of law concerning navigation and overseas commerce. Because ships sail from nation to nation over seas no nation owns, nations need to seek agreement over customs related to shipping. and Commerce. Following the sinking of the Morro Castle Morro Castle (môr`ō), fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba. It was erected by the Spanish in 1589 to protect the city from buccaneers. The fort was also used as a prison. in 1936, a minimum liability for death or injury was established at a rate of $60 per ship's ton, and then raised to $420 in 1984. ``Although $420 sounds like a substantial sum,'' Jarvis said, ``some quick math shows why it is not. The biggest cruise ships today weigh 100,000 tons; thus a ship's owner would have to establish a fund of at least $42 million for such a ship. But because such ships are designed to carry an average 2,000 passengers, the fund works out to just $21,000 per claimant.'' By contrast, he added, relatively inexpensive trip insurance, depending on the policy, covers not only injury or death, but also trip cancellation, interruption or delay, lost or stolen baggage and medical emergencies. Improved air filters United Airlines is installing air filters, built to the same standards as those used in operating rooms treating burn patients, in all of its jets. The new high-efficiency particulate-air (or Hepa) filters are designed to capture 99.97 percent of all airborne particles larger than three-millionths of a meter. That will eliminate nearly all pollen, bacteria and even most viruses from passenger cabin air, said Joe Lundquist, vice president for technology development at the Pall Corp., the East Hills, N.Y., company that makes the filters United will install during the next six months. All commercial jets built since the early 1980s have come with Hepa filters, but some block only 99 percent of tiny particles. The standard particle size for measuring the effectiveness of Hepa filters is about a third of a micron, which is a millionth of a meter. For comparison, human hair is typically 70 microns in diameter or 210 times wider than the particles Hepa filters are designed to trap. United already has the improved Hepa filters on its Airbus A-319 and A-320 jets, and will spend $425,000 to install them in the rest of its fleet, said Joe Hopkins, a United spokesman. More tourists in France France, the world's leader in attracting tourists, posted a 7 percent gain in tourist arrivals in 1997, according to a report in Travel Weekly. Was French culture the No. 1 draw? No, it was Disneyland Paris, according to tourism officials. Runners-up were the Pompidou center, the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Louvre (l  `vrə), foremost French museum of art, located in Paris. The building was a royal fortress and palace built by Philip II in the late 12th cent. .
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