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After the immediate shock," says best-selling British novelist Iain Banks, "I thought, 'Thank goodness I'm not writing a book at the moment' because you just think, 'What's the point?'" A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the arts community - including Banks, whose novel Dead Air comes...
In the wide world of socially responsible travel, one of the cardinal rules has long been "Take only pictures, leave only footprints." After reading academic Rosaleen Duffy's critical analysis of the impacts of "ethical," nature-based tourism, A Trip Too Far - Ecotourism, Politics & Exploitation (Earthscan; 210 pages), altruistic souls...
But in the end, the present gestures towards the past and even tells time to slow down a bit. Ten percent of the country’s land is now protected in an extensive system of national parks and preserves, and there are plans afoot to increase that to 30...
The airline is expected to lose an estimated ?800 million this year since it is filling only 60% of its seats. Yet some industry experts say the results are not bad for a start-up, and the airline is expecting to turn a profit in 2004. But there are other...
Thanks to the Enron and WorldCom corporate accounting scandals, whistleblowing is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. Both Cynthia Cooper, the internal auditor who sounded the alarm over WorldCom's $3.8 billion in bookkeeping shenanigans, and Sherron Watkins, who first voiced concerns about Enron's accounting tricks, have won acclaim...