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...relief. Hemingway made you feel like a lazy chump for missing out on the running of the bulls in Pamplona, but the new breed of travel books gives you the oxymoronic pleasure of being both over there and back here at the same time. As Alain de Botton puts it in The Art of Travel (Pantheon; 272 pages), "We may best be able to inhabit a place when we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there." As travel books go, The Art of Travel is on the unconventional side. It isn't about traveling anywhere...
...Connecticut in Farmington. That means wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants and using insect repellent during mosquito season. You should also practice mosquito control around your house. Clean out the rain gutters, remove old tires, and drain birdbaths or anything else that collects water where mosquitoes can breed. You can never eliminate risk, but in this case at least, you can control...
...surprise; they expected the trail of human infections to follow the migratory patterns of birds. Could birds flying south for the winter have strayed off course? Or is the disease--which is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes that have bitten infected birds--being spread by a new breed of mosquito...
...those young fans have shown team owners that there is money to be made, and that has attracted a new breed of owner. Investor groups, including the likes of Bill Murray, Jimmy Buffett and Nolan Ryan, have discovered they can get into the game for a relatively small investment. You can buy a whole Class A team for $2.5 million. Even better, the salaries of players and coaches of affiliated teams are paid by the big-league teams. (A Class A minor-league rookie makes $850 monthly.) Half the minor-league teams play in stadiums built or completely renovated since...
...DIED. HAJI, 3, the first Asian elephant conceived through artificial insemination, of a fatal herpes-like infection; in Springfield, Missouri. Haji was born in 1999 after many failed attempts to artificially breed elephants in captivity...