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...restaurant reviews and city listings, you'll find hundreds of articles, pictures and short videos. And if that isn't enough coverage of China's most dynamic city, Washburn also edits online city guide shanghaiist.com. NOTESFROMTHEROAD.COM Erik Gauger's sumptuous site contains gorgeous photographs from his trips around the globe. He eschews the camera phones or small digital cameras usually so beloved of travel bloggers and opts instead for an unwieldy, large-format Toyo AX camera with a Schneider lens. He also draws intricate maps in watercolors and acrylics to guide readers through Mexican deserts, the Iberian peninsula, and beyond...
Although the billboard is in an obscure location, Bates said the applications—most of them not evidently jokes—have been streaming in from around the globe since the Associated Press reported on the unorthodox campaign last Friday...
...name our shuttles for our aspirations--Atlantis, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour--the risks built into the very idea. Columbia, the fleet's pioneer, was named after an old Boston sloop that was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, carrying a cargo of otter skins to China. Any risk much repeated can become routine, and so it was for shuttle flights, except when they become tragic. That's when we are reminded that knowledge doesn't come easy and that many consequences are unintended, especially when we set off on an adventure...
...keep the yuan artificially weak, making its exports extra cheap and fostering a worrisome trade gap with the U.S. that ballooned to a record $162 billion in 2004. Unless Beijing changed its currency policy, a trade war loomed. Still, Beijing wouldn't budge, leaving businessmen and investors across the globe guessing as to when this uneasy status quo might finally change?and how dramatically...
...problem is not, of course, isolated to p.n.g. Developing countries across the globe are suffering from the rich nations' fascination with their exotic ways of life. From Nigerian terracotta busts and Malay skulls to Iraqi statues and Afghan coins, an enthusiastic trade has developed in selling off the icons of exotic cultures to grace the living rooms and galleries of Europe, America and Asia. "Trafficking in cultural property has become not only a lucrative business for certain traders, but also an extremely tempting source of additional income for populations living in poverty, above all in the country of origin...