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The travel season — for people and for sweets — is approaching. Dorie Greenspan, author of the cookbook Baking, shares with Michele Norris her advice on how to pack your baked goods so they arrive tasty and intact.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is in Islamabad. He is expected to urge President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to lift the state of emergency he imposed early this month. On the eve of Negroponte's arrival, authorities lifted the house arrest of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Danielle and Gabrielle Hall lost their mother, Martha Hall, to breast cancer in 2003. The sisters say their last Thanksgiving meal together with her revealed the holiday's true meaning.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has set up a caretaker government to run Pakistan until the January elections, and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto continues to reach out to other parties. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte is due in Islamabad on Friday, but Musharraf isn't in the mood to take U.S. advice.

Matthew Diffee contributes regularly to the cartoonists' bible, The New Yorker. But that magazine gets more than 500 submissions a week — and publishes only 20 cartoons in each issue. Diffee's new book, featuring his work and that of other New Yorker regulars, is The Rejection Collection, Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap.

Bad-boy golfer John Daly doesn't have an exercise regimen. He begins his day with a Diet Coke and a cigarette, and he has battled addictions to alcohol and gambling. But he sure can play. His new book is Golf My Own Damn Way.

Students joined the campaign against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday at the University of Punjab in Lahore, where cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was taken into custody. Pakistan's opposition parties are trying to forge a united front, but such political alliances are not easy.

In his book The Driver, Alexander Roy lays out how he drove from New York to Los Angeles in 31 hours and 4 minutes, stopping only six times. He explains how he prepared for what he says is a record-breaking road trip.

Imran Khan, former star cricket player who used his fame to elbow his way into Pakistan's political elite, was arrested at a student rally. He is an eloquent and outspoken critic of Musharraf, and had been on the run from police after fleeing house arrest.

More than any other food, oysters taste like the place they come from. Rowan Jacobsen, author of A Geography of Oysters, explains, describes and slurps his way through a sampling of succulent raw oysters.