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...walk down Mt. Auburn to Penguin Books, stop at McIntyre and Moore on the way. There are two McIntyre and Moore shops, and they are quite different. The old small one (30 Plympton St.) carries rare, out-of-print books. It is old and dusty, and full of atmosphere, but doesn't always have much to buy. It is definitely worth a visit, though...
There are many places in Europe where tour buses should not go. Unfortunately there are far fewer where they cannot go. One such rare route is the full, looping length of the river Seine as it winds its way through central Paris toward the English Channel. This is the waterway of kings and conquerors, of ruined abbeys, gothic trees, half-timbered farmhouses and pastoral symphonies on either bank. Until this summer, visitors who wished to savor the creamy countryside of Normandy had to cope with traffic and train schedules. But now, if they wish, they can finally take...
That was back in 1960, and it seemed then that the world would never run out of rhinos. "They were everywhere," Bentsen recalls of his first African safari. "They would charge the vehicles. One even walked through camp." These days, a rhino is a rare sight in the African wilderness. In the past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into...
...rare bit of curtain lifting, the Vatican responded two years ago by giving its blessing to an investigation of the murder charges by British journalist John Cornwell, whose book, A Thief in the Night, was released in Britain in late May. A onetime seminarian, Cornwell, 48, is a veteran editor for the London Observer and a novelist. Rome backed the project after Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume vouched for Cornwell's fairness and integrity. The author spent months interviewing the main witnesses, many of whom decided to speak only because of the Vatican go-ahead...
...week, Tobias will write a regular column for TIME called "Money Angles," which will appear in the Business section every two or three weeks. Tobias will write primarily about personal investing but will occasionally comment on wider economic and financial issues. Says Business editor Stephen Koepp: "Andy brings a rare combination of irreverence and expertise to these topics. Whenever he troops through the jungles of financial arcana, he always emerges with pithy, practical advice for his readers and unusual insights into the latest financial trends. He skewers the bad deals and scouts out the good ones...