CHEYENNE, Wyo.

A grizzly bear clan famous for its frequent roadside appearances in Grand Teton National Park is keeping park rangers especially busy this summer tending to tourist critter jams.

The cubs are cute – no question about that – but a female grizzly with cubs happens to be one of the most dangerous animals in North America. And this Grand Teton clan has a history: One attacked a hiker; another was shot and killed by a hunter.

Biologists speculate the unusually camera-friendly behavior by Grizzly No. 399 and her daughter, No. 610, might serve to keep at bay adult male grizzlies, which sometimes kill cubs not their own.

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Warren Buffett is one who doesn’t think highly of airline stocks, a view he surely would keep based on the lackluster trades of newly public Spirit Airlines. Joe Brancatelli shares secrets and proven tips for first- and business-class road warriors. Spirit has operated as the P.T. Barnum of airlines—management believes there’s a bargain-hunting sucker born every minute—but its reaction to a pilots’ strike appalls even the most cynical airline-industry observers. For better or worse, Southwest Airlines’ acquisition of AirTran will be the stuff of textbooks a decade from now. A look at the big questions ahead for the nation’s most successful airline. Read more…

A fizzing university city that attracts as many tourists as students is not the obvious choice for a relaxing weekend – but the Varsity Hotel & Spa in Cambridge has big ambitions, this month opening a rooftop area.

Launched last July by Will Davies and Tariq Mamoud, who stayed on in the area after their university studies, their only hotel is this custom-built 48-roomer, cleverly inserted on a tight corner plot behind a row of listed buildings.

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The folks at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority made a great show of things earlier this month, establishing a new logo and promising everything from new shops to posted wait times for security and baggage.

Those may come some day, but what people really want is improved service. And, so far, I dont see any signs of it.

I flew into Pearson Sunday night and the lineup at customs was terrible; snaking around and around. It took folks about 20 minutes to get down to the baggage carousel. Thats far too long to make people stand around waiting to declare they brought back three bottles of wine from the Napa Valley instead of the set limit of two.

Mind you, theres little point in getting through customs quickly when it simply means youll waste time standing around waiting for your luggage.

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