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...perhaps to some malicious fluke in the internal wiring of human nature, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as cruising (albeit only at a cool 15mph) through the EZ-Pass lane at a particularly large and heavily trafficked toll plaza, while dozens of cars slow to a gridlocked crawl around you. What you probably aren’t thinking about, however, as you revel in the glory of your Schadenfreude, is your divorce proceedings, 10 years down the line. There, your present-day fiancee (at that point your soon-to-be ex-wife) might be using records...
...carnival-esque parade inched past Madison Square Garden, a gathering of pro-life and pro-Bush demonstrators held a small counter-demonstration across from Penn Plaza, engaging several protesters in charged shouting matches. Some labeled the demonstrators “baby-killers”; “Go home, fascists!” came the response...
...carnival-esque parade inched past Madison Square Garden, a gathering of pro-life and pro-Bush demonstrators held a small counter-demonstration across from Penn Plaza, engaging several protesters in charged shouting matches. Some labeled the demonstrators “baby-killers”; “Go home, fascists!” came the response...
...group that zealously subscribes to the communist doctrine of Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong, Nepal's rebels last week showed an unsettling knack for finding the pressure points of a capitalist society. Following a firebomb attack on Kathmandu's luxury Soaltee Crowne Plaza hotel, the Maoists demanded the closure of a dozen multinational companies and declared a blockade of the main roads leading into the capital?upon which its 1.5 million residents depend for everything from fuel to food. Vegetable prices rose, tourists canceled their visits and officials warned that fuel supplies could run dry by next week. The companies that...
...wine tourism as a means of selling a brighter national identity. Colchagua now has a Ruta del Vino (Wine Route), with train service, tastings on decks built high into vineyard hills, horseback excursions and rodeos performed by huasos (cowboys). Four-star Spanish-colonial-style hotels like the Santa Cruz Plaza are sprouting up, and festivals like the Vendimia (grape harvest) are drawing new crowds of foreigners. At the bottom of the world these days, the wine future looks all bottoms up. --With reporting by Cristobal Edwards/the Colchagua Valley and Uki Goni/Mendoza