The entry period for Condé Nast Traveler's second World Savers Contest ends at 11:59 p.m. today! 

Ever participate in charity work during your travels? Tell us your experience and you could win a trip for two.

Here's how: Send us a photo from your trip and up to 500 words describing your efforts on the part of the environment, health, education, or other area of need to voluntourism@condenast.com.  Don't forget to include your contact information. 

Submissions will be judged by Condé Nast Traveler editors, who will select the most impressive entry and who will award a trip for two at the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa on Oahu.

Looking for inspiration? Read the winning entry from our first World Savers Contest.

A foodie in the White House!  Above, Barack Obama, then a state senator, appears in a 2001 episode of Chicago's version of Check, Please! 

Our nation's capital is abuzz with Obama fans today, but our nation's best publications have been abuzz with Washington, D.C., food news for weeks. Here are some of the more appetizing headlines:

* The White House Chef Wars (Gourmet)
* Despite the flailing economy, Washington, D.C. restaurateurs see rays of hope emanating from Barack Obama (New York Times)
* Bon Appétit has an Inauguration Day dinner planned out, you just have to cook it
* The recipe for Andrew Jackson's Inaugural Orange Punch, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
* Ex White House chefs dish about presidential palates (Chicago Sun-Times)
* The first suppers: A tradition of inaugural meals (Los Angeles Times)
* Metrocurean, a healthy serving of epicurean news from a D.C. blogger

Further reading:
* Catch of the Day: International noshables on the DT every Tuesday

Ortygia, in Syracuse, Sicily,
is a haven from packed beaches.
Photo: Condé Nast Traveler

by Ondine Cohane

I've just completed a jaunt along Mexico's Mayan Riviera (more on that soon), and although I still have another month or so on the road, word of new openings in my adopted country, Italy, has been tempting me home. If you are heading that way this year, here are some places that you, too, should keep on the radar.

In Naples, one of the most underrated cities in the country as far as I am concerned, the Romeo Hotel has just been unveiled near Piazza Municipio, and the cruise ship docks on a promenade that's the centerpiece of a bigger effort to beautify this part of town. Among the draws of the 85-room boutique property is its terrace-top outdoor pool, a huge fitness and spa area overlooking the Bay of Naples, and views of Capri and Mount Vesuvius from many of the rooms. (I also like the sound of the Italian modern artists' work the hotel has put together.)

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To rewild or not to rewild North
America with ancient animals?
Photo: Karen Carr

by Sara Tucker

This week's post is completely bollixed. After several readers pointed out the depressing nature of recent columns (obesity and the flying public, the devastating effects of noise pollution, English as an invasive language), we decided to rummage around in the blogosphere for happier news. World happiness itself came to mind, but that idea was still a bud on the vine when we got sidetracked by a flock of penguins. Before you can say "happy feet," we were deep in a brambly thicket, torn and bleeding.

It happened like this: While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The rescue operation was covered by USAToday (under "News: Offbeat"), the Washington Post, the BBC News, CNN.com, and dozens of other news organizations. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.

One penguin rescue reminded us of another, so next we decided to check in on a colony of Australian fairy penguins and their canine protector, a Maremma sheepdog named Oddball.

Barbara S. Peterson underwent flight attendant training while reporting for her 2004 book on JetBlue, Blue Streak. Here, Barbara recounts one memorable lesson: Learning to ditch in a Florida pool. 

Most flight crews get at least one day of training in a pool in swimsuits for that rarest of airline disasters, a ditching. If you think that sounds fun, you're wrong. Among other things, you have to demonstrate that you're a strong swimmer and that you're capable of climbing into and out of one of those inflatable evacuation chutes, which become life rafts in the water.  That's a lot harder than it sounds--the rafts are huge and slippery--and also consider that the conditions in a real ditching would be far more challenging than those in a pool in Florida's breezy 80-degree weather.

The A320 rafts I'm familiar with are designed to seat 44, but can accommodate 55 in extreme situations. Try to imagine the claustrophobia and panic you might experience wedged in one of these things.

Peterson joins a group of JetBlue flight attendants and pilots practicing their survival
skills--including ditching an aircraft--in a Miami swimming pool.
Photo: Mark Greenberg/World Picture News for Blue Streak

Barbara S. Peterson underwent flight attendant training while reporting for her 2004 book on JetBlue, Blue Streak. Yesterday, Barbara dipped into those memories as she, and the rest of us, came to grips with the "Miracle on the Hudson."

Jan. 15: Here are some thoughts written as I sit in the Oasis lounge at JFK Terminal 4, looking at a tarmac that is still covered with a dusting of snow--a reminder of how today, the coldest day of the season, saw the unreal spectacle of 155 passengers and crew ditching US Airways flight 1549, bound for Charlotte, in an ice-cold Hudson River just minutes after it had taken off from LaGuardia. As it happened, I bumped into two people I know at JetBlue, which flies the same type of plane--the Airbus A320--that landed in the drink earlier today. (And wouldn't you know it, apparently the JetBlue PR department is getting calls from TV people interested in talking to one of its own pilots, who made a heroic landing a few years ago--under very different circumstances.) 

Speaking of the media, lots of people in this lounge are hunched over laptops or are watching TV for the latest news of this bizarre episode. As my JetBlue acquaintances put it, the mood in aviation circles is of amazement and relief over the chain reaction of events: a jet lost two engines, which is almost unheard of, followed by a successful ditching in the water with no casualties--an even rarer (if not totally unprecedented) event. 

So what was it like aboard that plane as it descended into the water?

Neeson at Condé Nast Traveler's
Readers' Choice Awards in 2007.
Photo: AP/Peter Kramer

by Beata Loyfman

You may not know this, but we are serious fans of vertically gifted actor Liam Neeson. But after his recent statements about travel, we're downright devoted. Case in point: "American parents are too over-protective. If kids traveled a little bit more and saw more of the world, there'd be a lot more tolerance of other cultures, nations, and countries." Neeson claims that his teenage sons will be given backpacks and shown the door as soon as they turn 18.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Sure, if I had Neeson's money, I wouldn't mind sending the kids on a European jaunt either." But the good news is that these days, you don't have to spend a fortune to expand your teenager's horizons. First, check out these crafty tricks for snagging cheap airfares from AirfareWatchdog. Second, go on Venere.com for incredible deals on lodgings in Europe. Third, book affordable and efficient intra-Europe train fares on Rail Europe. And fourth...could we tag along for the ride?

Further reading:
* Neesan may like to travel, but Adrien Brody's a homebody--and his home is a castle
* Boldface: Celebrity travels

Following up on her top five tech picks from this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Condé Nast Traveler Deputy News Editor Deborah Dunn gives us five more favorite tools for chronicling your next trip--and enjoying the ride.

Portable GPS devices seem to be getting better by the day, and TomTom's GO 740 Live is the latest addition to the increasingly competitive field. The most promising feature is the new Google search function, which means no longer depending on the Points of Interests stored in the TomTom database. Instead, you can now access the address and other pertinent information of any place listed on Google. What's more, the 740 has real-time updates on traffic and fuel prices, improved voice recognition, and a service called Map Share, which lets you swap routing tips and map changes with other TomTom users (tomtom.com; $500; available in spring or summer).

The three-year-old Slingbox, possibly the greatest tech innovation since DVR, allows you to watch any of the programs broadcast on your home television from your laptop--wherever you may be. As long as you have broadband Internet access, you'll never have to wait to see, say, the latest episode of Mad Men. The newer SlingPlayer Mobile software airs those TV shows on smartphones, including Blackberry Pearls, and come March it'll be fit for iPhones, Blackberrys, and several other kinds of smartphones. Best of all, the application lets you program your DVR remotely (slingmedia.com; $30).

Find three more top tech picks after the jump.

Kate Hanni, founder of the
Coalition for an Airline
Passenger Bill of Rights,
in Washington, D.C. last April
(click to enlarge)
Photo:
Stephanie Pfriender Stylander

by Barbara S. Peterson

As President Bush winds up his last week in office, here's something to ponder, especially if you happen to be sitting on a plane held on the tarmac: One of his administration's last acts in the transportation field was to approve a policy that could open the way for consumers to sue airlines in state courts for any action that might violate their "contract of carriage," the pact that, unbeknownst to most travelers, goes into effect each time an airline sells you a ticket.

Few people have ever pored over the reams of gobbledygook in a real contract of carriage; most of us have never even tried to get a copy of one. (If you care, they are available online. Just type in the name of the airline and "contract of carriage." I just tried it for United and got about 50 single-spaced pages of rules.) But if the DOT has its way, you may want to brush up on your legalese. Airlines may soon have to rewrite their documents to include specific pledges on what they'll do for you when things go awry--and if they fall down on the job, you could get more than a lame letter of apology.

by John Oseid

What a thrill the other night to see the low-budget Slumdog Millionaire surprise the world and trash its muscular competition at the Golden Globes. But when composer A.R. Rahman picked up the Best Score award for his film sound track, it came as no shock to Bollywood aficionados. The baby-faced former jingle writer is (to borrow a Sanskrit word) a juggernaut, having scored more than 100 movies and sold more than 100 million records in his career.

Westerners may know Rahman from the Cate Blanchett film Elizabeth: The Golden Age and the London/Broadway stage hit Bombay Dreams. For the uninitiated, the Slumdog score is not just an intro to the Indian playback singer phenomenon, it's also a fun album featuring regular Rahman collaborators.

In the ultimate East-West mash-up, Slumdog throws in classical snippets, electronica, and a bit of disco. The film's fans will recognize the heart-pounding percussion in the first cut "O . . . Saya" from the movie's early chase scene that takes place in Bombay's Dharavi slum. It opens with a quick guitar lick that has a U2 feel to it, while the singular vocal stylings of British-Sri Lankan sensation M.I.A. drop in halfway through. The results are haunting.

Far be it from us to dissuade you from visiting Madrid's Museo Nacional del Prado, one of the best museums in the world. But today Google unveiled the next best thing. A new layer on Google Earth offers highly detailed views of 14 paintings from the museum, including Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 in Madrid, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. And by highly detailed, we mean images that contain as many as 14 million pixels. We are talking about the ability to read the brushstrokes, the weave of the canvas underneath, and the cracks in the paint from age. You can't get that kind of resolution at the museum--at least not without placing your nose flat against the canvas and risking the wrath of Prado's muscled security. 

To view, open up Google Earth and fly to Museo del Prado. Make sure that you have the 3D buildings layer turned "on."

Don't know what we're talking about? Visit the Google Earth landing page to learn more.

by Julia Bainbridge

Africa remains a huge destination for our readers (just look at the Gold List), and judging from reader mail, it seems that we can never cover the continent enough. But when it comes to dealing with some of the other stories coming out of Africa, most people--including us--sometimes don't want to hear it. 

If you find yourself falling into the latter category, run, don't walk, to whatever movie theater is lucky enough to screen Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a documentary about the truly remarkable Liberian women (both Christian and Muslim) who came together to help end a bloody, decades-old civil war.

Every day for a year or so, these women protested at Monrovia's fish market, trying to get warlord-president Charles Taylor's attention. He finally agreed to attend peace talks in Ghana in 2003, and the women caught a glimpse of hope. When those talks stalled, though, around 2,000 women staged a silent protest with nothing more than strong convictions. And when that didn't work, they barricaded the site of the peace talks and announced they would not move until a deal was done. And so it was.

by Brook Wilkinson

Taken a green trip lately? Booked yourself into an eco-efficient hotel? Condé Nast Traveler wants to know. We're looking for nominees for our annual World Savers Awards, which honor the best in earth-friendly travel, from hotels to cruise lines to airlines to tour companies. We'll send your nominees an application that covers five areas of good works: poverty alleviation, cultural and environmental preservation, wildlife conservation, health, and education. A team of editors will pore over every application we receive, and send the best of the bunch to our panel of judges--people like Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation, and Laurie David, producer of An Inconvenient Truth. The winners will be announced in the September 2009 issue of Condé Nast Traveler. You can read about last year's winners, from urban hotels to rain forest lodges, here.

Nominate your favorite green travel company by clicking on "Post a comment" below.

Further reading:
* The 2008 World Savers Awards
* The Green Travel Handbook and Tips for the Ethical Traveler
* Everything you need to know about voluntourism
* Responsible Traveler: Making a difference

After a prolonged construction period, the Fairmont Battery Wharf has finally opened on a spit of land at the fringe of the North End. The five-building complex makes its debut with an introductory offer called the Only One Way Winter Package: reserve two nights at the hotel and get the second night free. Just ask about it when booking your stay.

Rates for this package, which requires a non-refundable one-night deposit at the time of booking, start at $299 per night (not including tax or gratuity) through April 15. According to one Daily Traveler who recently stayed there, it's not too much to ask for plush rooms with satiny soft sheets, massive flat-screen televisions with complimentary movie selections, and posh Miller Harris bath amenities. While a bit removed from the city center, there are world-class cannolis within walking distance and a convenient water taxi to Logan Airport. And Guy Martin, of the Michelin-starred Paris restaurant Le Grand Vefour, presides over the intimate Sensing restaurant.

Further reading:
* Boston: A little black book and some summer cocktails
* Daily Traveler Mollie Chen finds the sandwich of her dreams in Cambridge, MA
* Guy Martin, not to be confused with Guy Martin

by Deborah Dunn

The most visible signs of the economic downturn at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which wrapped up yesterday in Las Vegas, were shorter taxi lines and thinner crowds ogling the booth babes (except for the throngs huddled around the cheerleaders at the Casio booth). But while there may have been slightly fewer attendees than in past years (Sin City's largest convention usually draws some 140,000 tech junkies), I uncovered just as many lust-worthy new toys as I scoured the thousands of exhibits. All the major electronic companies unveiled their latest products, including a slew of great new gear for travelers, everything from Lilliputian laptops to ever-more clever cameras. The only hitch is that most of the gadgets won't be available until later this year and some were only in the prototype phase. Over the next several months, Condé Nast Traveler will be rigorously testing and reviewing as many of the new products as possible. In the meantime, here are my top five favorite finds:

1. The star attraction at the LG booth was concealed behind a glass case: a sleek-looking watch (left) (albeit a little on the big side) with a built-in 3G phone and a music player. It's also equipped with voice recognition and a touch screen. James Bond's Q couldn't have designed it better (slated to go on sale mid year in Europe; price hasn't been announced yet).

2. Sony's candy-colored mini camcorders, the Webbie HD line (right), are as fetching as they are affordable ($169 and $199; on sale in March)

3. Netbooks--small laptops designed primarily for web surfing--made a big splash at this year's CES but the two-pound, no-fuss Asus Eee PC T91 seemed to pack more punch than the others, thanks to its TV tuner, FM transmitter, GPS, and best of all, swivel touch screen. (slated to go on sale in mid to late 2009; price hasn't been announced yet)

4. Powermat's foldable travel mat (right) charges three wireless devices at once, including laptops, iPhones, GPS devices, even batteries--and only requires a single cable ($100, plus $30 per casing for each of the devices; on sale at the end of the year).

5. Polaroid's Pogo is a digital camera and mini photo printer in one pocket-size package. The photo quality is only fair, but the instant gratification can't be beat ($199; available in March). 

Deborah Dunn is Condé Nast Traveler's Deputy News Editor.

Further reading:
* Video: Las Vegas shopping, dining, relaxing and dancing
* Gear, Tech, Etc.: Travel meets technology

Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles,
and how Chinese food really is all-American

by Julia Bainbridge

Sunday night at a panel discussion titled "Asian Dining Rules" at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, food critic Steven Shaw, chef David Chang, and New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee spent a good amount of time dispelling myths about Asian, mostly Chinese, food (broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable, fortune cookies are not Chinese treats) and discussing the liquidity of food's story; it's changing all the time (case in point: Jamaican-Chinese restaurants in America).

As far as what happens at the tables of those Chinese restaurants, the panelists talked a lot about how difficult it can be to find "authentic" Chinese food--whether that means Sichuan-, Shanghai-, or Fuzhou-style Chinese--in America. Some of their New York favorites (because that is, after all, where they live)? Tang Tang, Empire Szechuan, the Flushing Mall food court, the Grand Sichuan chain, Fried Dumpling, and New Green Bo.

These places are their favorite places, mind you; not all of them are "authentic." Italian-American cuisines are just that: They are the true cuisines of those immigrants who have come to America. That's what they eat. Conversely, American Chinese cuisine was invented for American palates.

So how do you get the real thing? Find out, after the jump. 

Photo: Henrik Saxgren

by Julia Bainbridge

Ole Bornedal's Just Another Love Story takes viewers both on a trip to Denmark, charcoal-hued and windy, and on a dark, romantic Cyclone ride. Bornedal, one of the most internationally recognized Danish directors, who had his breakthrough with Nightwatch, calls it "a bloody drama about love."

Whether you agree with Bornedal's description or not, there's no denying Just Another Love Story is modern film noir: Moral ambiguity? Check. Sexual motivation? Check. Style? Check, check, check. The New York Times's Stephen Holden describes the film as a "jumpy, high-adrenaline thriller" that "administers a stinging slap in the face to the popular notion of Denmark as one of the happiest places on earth." True, "cold, dreary, unspectacular" Denmark is the happiest place in the world (ABC News). Just check the World Map of Happiness. The film, though, is more Hamlet than happy happy joy joy; it's a morbid lens on a stark landscape that paints the country slate gray instead of silver. And like smoky flames curling and rising from disaster, you have to keep watching it to see if the dust eventually settles.

Men at work.

Wanted:  Tourism Queensland of Australia is looking for someone to serve as "Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef."   
Duties:  Share your experience via weekly blogs, videos, and the occasional media interview.  Other duties include lazing about, working on the tan, plus a little pool cleaning.
Location: Hamilton Island, a tropical island blessed with crystal blue water and powdery sands.
Pay: $103,000 for six months
Are We Kidding? Apparently this is a real offer.  Send applications to www.islandreefjob.com

If you get the job, please take us with you.

Last week, Daily Traveler reader JG  asked: My fiancée and I are beginning to make plans for our honeymoon, which will be in August of this year.  We're looking at several places, including Hawaii and Bali, but we really have our hearts set on Phuket, Thailand. All we want to do is kick back on the beach, eat great local food, and relax, because we know that after the wedding we're going to need it. My question is twofold: What are the best airline and flight deals to Phuket from New York (where we live), and what are some four-star hotel options that won't break us?

Thanks for being specific, JG! This makes our jobs easier. If you're going to fly all that way, our Asia-based editors suggest a few things:

* Do think about Bali. It's a cliché but it's beautiful, it's easy, and you can have a mix of sybaritic lying-on-the-beach days and adventures to Ubud and other places. You certainly won't feel claustrophobic.
* Here are three great places to stay in Phuket that made our 2009 Gold List: the affordable JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa on Mai Khao beach, the less price-conscious but peaceful Amanpuri on Pansea Beach, and Bang Tao Bay's Banyan Tree Phuket, where we just sent one of our "Live the Cover" contest winners.
* Another way to mix it up: You could stay at one of these resorts for a week or so, and then, once you start to get a little stir-crazy, maybe take two or three days for a once-in-a-lifetime experience like the Four Seasons tented camps in Chiang Mai.

As for flights, we haven't heard of any great deals to Phuket, but we'll keep you posted if we do. The best plan of action is to keep checking on sites like Kayak and ITA Software to see how prices fluctuate, and when you see something cheap, pounce! And seeing that you're from New York, pay a visit to those travel agents who specialize in finding tickets for the local Asian community.  As the Perrin Post explains, such small businesses often have the best prices.

Hope this answers your questions. Have more? Comment away.

Italy's rail network. For more detailed maps, go here.

by Ondine Cohane

I am a huge fan of train travel. I love watching the scenery change and reading and working en route. Most of all, I like the fact that getting around by rail is more environmentally friendly than flying.

In Europe in the last couple of years, a number of new routes and improvements have been launched in light of the continent's increasing interest in the eco mode of transport, including the Alta Velocidad Española (AVE), a high-speed train that covers the distance between Madrid and Barcelona in less than three hours (tickets can be purchased through raileurope.com). Not to be outdone, Italy has just launched a similar option linking major cities and--more important--cutting travel time. The Rome-to-Milan route that once took about five hours will now be cut to three and a half, Milan to Florence to just over two, and Naples to Milan to just shy of five. It will be a huge boon to visitors who want to hit the must-see cities in both the north and south of the country but who don't want to navigate local airports or brave the Italian highway system. And the Italian railroad is promising free snacks, beverages, and newspapers on board, to boot. It hasn't yet specified what aperitivi will be on board, but we are hoping for a Campari and some tomato-topped focaccia. (The reality is more along the lines of bottled water and peanuts.) I'd like to see high-speed Internet access, as well, but I'm not holding my breath. Rome's Fiumicino airport has promised the service for years, but it still hasn't been installed. To make reservations, contact Italia Rail.

Further reading:
* Continental Connections: Europe's high-speed trains are extending their reach--and upgrading amenities
* Whistle-Stop Tours: Ten of the most scenic and luxurious train trips in North America
* Word of Mouth: The buzz worldwide

Holiday vacations have come to an end, and our daily routines are on a roll once again. If it's all too big a dose of reality for you, jet off to French Polynesia for $860. We're serious: $860 nonstop round-trip. Air Tahiti Nui's flight from Los Angeles to Papeete, Tahiti, is valid on nine select departures from LAX February 7 to March 11, with returns from PPT February 11 to March 16. To enjoy these moana (economy) class savings, flights must be booked by January 22, so wake up, reserve a seat, and then go back to fantasy land. 

Pikachu on Japan's Seto line
Photo: Pink Tentacle

* There's street art, and then there's rail art (Pink Tentacle)

* Nature or nurture? Yet more proof, if proof be needed, that the modern diet is destroying our taste buds (New Scientist)

* "Why I'm Glad the 'Glory Days' of Air Travel Are Gone" (The Cranky Flier)

* "Airlines need to become sympathetic to passenger issues" (Travel-Rants). Tell us about it

* Air India fired ten flight attendants for being overweight (Gulliver). Hey, whatever's heavy on the ground is heavier in the air

Minibikes don't discriminate.

by Sara Tucker

Whatever is heavy on the ground is even heavier in the air. That's not physics; it's economics. It's costing the airlines $538 million a year to tote our excess flab through the skies--Forbes.com did the math--and that's just in terms of jet fuel. In Canada, the cost of serving overweight flyers just went up: Starting tomorrow, disabled passengers, including the severely obese, will be entitled to two seats for the price of one on domestic flights.

Our fatness is forever in the news. Bloggers loved the story of Dr. Craig Alan Bittner, the Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon who used human blubber to power his SUV, a bit of journalistic flotsam that surfaced during Christmas week, just as millions of Americans were resolving to slim down in 2009. The Beverly Hills lipodiesel story had some holes in it (Wired, for one, called Bittner's bluff; the doctor himself has skipped town). And yet the whole idea of fat-powered vehicles is just too intriguing to dismiss.

Obvious question: Why not use air travelers' excess weight to help fly the plane?

Daily Traveler Beata Loyfman goes NBC Mobile with her insider tips on fashionable travel.

For more from Beata, check out Boldface, her weekly section on celebrity travels.

by Barbara S. Peterson

Judging from the latest bout of passenger-versus-passenger profiling cases, it's hard to escape the conclusion that the airlines and the government are as woefully unprepared to deal with these ugly episodes as they were right after 9/11.

The latest reminder is the news that JetBlue and the TSA reportedly paid $240,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a passenger, Raed Jarrar, who was ordered to remove a T-shirt with a slogan in both English and Arabic as a condition of his being allowed to fly. 

According to Wired.com: "As Jarrar was waiting to board, TSA officials approached him and said he was required to remove his shirt because passengers were not comfortable with it, according to the lawsuit. The suit claimed one TSA official commented that the Arabic lettering was akin to wearing a T-shirt at a bank stating, 'I am a robber.' " (Italics mine.) Both Jaunted and Newsradio WTMJ 620 AM of Milwaukee ran photos of a T-shirt that presumably is similar to the one worn by Jarrar.