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...setting out to inhere meaning on our own. We underestimate the significance of life’s little idiosyncrasies. We ignore the beauty of the mundane. And, inevitably, we come to the end of our journey feeling unfulfilled because no amount of time is ever sufficient to live the guidebook fantasy and to make...
...adventure” traveler segment represented in the focus groups. It said that the majority of the 24 subjects found Let’s Go a “young,” “commercial,” “beginner’s guidebook,” with “frivolous, silly” humor...
...recent years, in our own separately published guidebook, The Best College for You, TIME has named a group of Colleges of the Year, selected not as anointed "winners" of a ranking exercise but rather as exemplars--schools that have taken laudable steps to improve their undergraduate education. Each year our criterion has a different focus--from promoting minority access to providing academic opportunities for residents of the surrounding community. Last year we used the teaching of writing across the curriculum as our measure of success, and we named four Colleges of the Year that reflected the variety of postsecondary institutions...
...admits. "We are an influence, there's no question of that, and maybe there wouldn't have been so many backpackers without us." But as visitor numbers climb each year, no one has any plans to stem the flood. Wheeler offers no grand solutions, sticking to the piecemeal guidebook wisdom of patronizing the good places to discourage the bad. But he is ready to give up one backpacker conceit, the habit of calling one another "travelers" to distinguish themselves from other, less intrepid vacationers. "I don't believe that for a minute," says Wheeler...
...chopsticks restaurant in salalah, the capital of the Omani province of Dhofar, is no longer open, its "passable" food and "awful" service (as one unsympathetic guidebook had it) now just a sweet-and-sour memory. Yet only a few doors away, the splashiest new eatery in the forgotten, once glorious town is Chinese Cascade, which serves Mandarin prawn toast, cauliflower Manchurian and vegetable wontons. It's "The Authentic Chinese Restaurant," if you believe the sign, but when an unsuspecting visitor steps in, he finds that the waiters, the diners, the owners - everyone is Indian. "Here there are so many Pakistani...