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...Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder traveler whose 2002 book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, is a crucial reference for any budget wanderer. He started his companion blog the same year and provides almost daily updates from wherever he is (at press time, it was Paris). DERELICTLONDON.COM When you're done with the London Eye and Buckingham Palace, turn to Paul Talling's detail-packed blog on obscure pockets of the British capital. He'll take...
...travel books came with warnings, the one for Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide would read, "Caution: may inspire actual voyage." But then, this lavishly produced guide couldn't help do otherwise?especially if you're partial to adventure. By the time you've read the account in Chapter 6 of Alexander the Great's legacy in Herat, you'll be drawing up an itinerary. And once you finish the chapter on Bamiyan and its ancient Buddhist kingdoms, you may well be on the phone to your travel agent. All of this is testimony to the skill of authors Bijan Omrani...
...into a pickup truck and peered through a nightscope to watch his agents tear through the chaparral in Dodge Ram Charger "war wagons" to overtake groups of Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. Later, he proudly counted the day's total arrests: 2,643 illegal immigrants. Nudging a companion, Ezell declared, "Isn't this...
...disintegrates, the other survives but lapses into isolation and cynicism. Frayn's novels, notably Sweet Dreams and Towards the End of the Morning, also evoke the slow decay of marriage and depict children as noisy housewreckers. His own marriage effectively ended with a separation five years ago; his frequent companion, as British newspapers phrase it, is Claire Tomalin, literary editor of the London Sunday Times. Frayn says he remains close to his daughters, one a novice BBC staffer, another a would-be journalist, the third applying to universities. He admits that his sour descriptions of beleaguered parenthood and the "squalor...
BORN. To Jessica Lange, 36, Oscar-winning actress (for 1982's Tootsie) whose latest film is Sweet Dreams; and her companion of four years, Sam Shepard, 42, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright (for 1978's Buried Child) whose latest play is the critically acclaimed A Lie of the Mind: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Fe. Name: Hannah Jane. Weight...