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...Gadams' husband, retired banker Alasdair Morrison, has completed all 4 Deserts legs and finds personal growth in the wilderness. "These events put life into perspective in many ways," he says. "Your needs on the races are quite basic and there is a lot about everyday life that you see is superfluous...
...those of us who are not brain surgeons, driving is probably the most complex everyday thing we do," writes design journalist Vanderbilt in this look at the intricacies of the open road. Full of scads of cocktail-party factoids (half of all American road crashes occur at intersections; Saturday afternoons see more congestion than the typical rush hour), Traffic piles up fact after study after data point into an occasionally mind-numbing heap. Yet several of Vanderbilt's conclusions are eye-opening. Example: "We all think we are better drivers than we are." Propelled onto the road after a minimum...
...Leaving home means abandoning small, enduring, everyday memories like particular street corners or the sibilant rattle of pine needles shaken by the wind off the San Francisco Bay. When I moved to Boston, folding the new streets and sounds into my daily life made me feel even farther away from home than I already felt, but it only took me a few days here to memorize and embrace the regular features of my walk to work: the cracks in the tiled sidewalk, the passing of the 201 bus that no one ever rides, the house with the bright blue door...
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...think it's too early to publish a memoir? You're only 26. -Steve Lin, BeijingThere are many things in life that have quickly passed me by. I'm traveling on the road almost everyday. And sometimes you don't have time to really reflect on life. I've tried to remember every important thing that has happened to me over the years. Also, this is a time when many people want to know about China. I always get asked why, as a Chinese person, do I play Western classical music. That image doesn't really...