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...heart is in the right place with last week’s proposal. Because even with its potential benefits for airplane navigation (turn 15 degrees north when you see the Bud Light sign) and information dissemination (hi mom!), we would rather keep our skies free from the litter of “obtrusive” advertising...
...shrinking of our horizons is perhaps the most common trope of modern travel writing?and no wonder. The Antarctic ice is traversed by tour groups; permanent guide ropes help you up a litter-strewn Everest; and even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The shrinking of our horizons is perhaps the most common trope of modern travel writing - and no wonder. The Antarctic ice is traversed by tour groups; permanent guide ropes help you up a litter-strewn Everest; and even space travel (if Sir Richard Branson's recently unveiled ambitions are anything to go by) will one day be within the financial grasp of the average tourist. But before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely...
...that tanned bodies litter patches of green grass from Harvard Yard to the Charles, people-watching has emerged as more than a casual pastime. This blood sport is highly competitive. What to wear? How to wear it? Where to wear...
...Village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet, so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing to pay exorbitant prices...