You might know this thrill:  You step off the train or take a taxi into the center of an unfamiliar city. Shouldering your suitcase, you decide to skip the

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Modern travelers, I think, sometimes speak the word "layover" in the same tone of voice a Plymouth Colony preacher's wife in the seventeenth century might have uttered the word "prostitute."  There is, it's sometimes implied, something ghastly about the business.  It is not to be extolled, and if at all possible it is to be avoided altogether.  Layover