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...anything to worry about. "Don't think twice about it," replied Schwartz, who had worked long enough in the oil industry for Shell to be familiar with Iraqi saber rattling. The next day Kuwait was invaded, and Schwartz "looked like an idiot," he concedes. "I applied an old mental map to a new situation and failed to force myself to be imaginative...
MEANWHILE IN BRUSSELS... Wiped Off the Map The European Union is often accused of riding roughshod over the wishes of member states. But the latest edition of the E.U. statistical yearbook does away with part of an entire country. On the map on its front cover, Wales has vanished, replaced by nothing but the Irish Sea. Apologetic officials said they meant no offense. No word on whether the Irish Sea gets a seat in the European Parliament...
...wondering became constructive through my readings, as I used them to map my existence in the terrain of American society,” Han said. “And then I realized that I, and probably the many other Asian Americans in my generation too, had something to say about where we each belonged on the map...
...inclusive guided Alfa tours that start around ?2,000. "With cars today you're shut off from the surrounding environment," says Laimer. "You lose the real sense of driving." Their German-based company, Nostalgic, simply drops the key in the client's palm and hands over a map and guidebook. "There are people who have the money and the desire but not the knowledge or the time to own a classic car," notes Pichler. "Now a businessman in London gets on a plane and three hours later he is driving a vintage Alfa Romeo through the hills of Chianti...
...narrative is ideally suited to travel books, only a handful have appeared, probably as a result of the medium's longtime marginalization. Suddenly, though, a group of works - two books and one comix series - have appeared with travel as the central theme. By traipsing through them, we can map out the route to the golden spires and around the crocodile pits of this emerging sub-genre...