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The army convoy rattled through Al-Adhamiya like a carnival roller coaster, each turn as blind as the next. Not that the soldiers could see much anyway. Night had fallen on the old Baghdad quarter, a byzantine maze lit only by kerosene lamps flickering from rugged stone houses. We moved...
I was going to become best friends with Kelly Clarkson this summer. She, touring Europe, would come into the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens and in her cheeriest tone, normally reserved for Proactiv skin care commercials, and ask me all about “transcultural communication networks between...
When I made a reporting trip to Pakistan's rugged Baluchistan province in 2004, I expected to encounter strong feelings against the central government in Islamabad. Baluchistan was in the grips of a low-level insurgency, with tribesmen demanding greater autonomy for the province. Just days before my trip, a...
Rugged rural Wyoming and steamy French Polynesia may seem worlds apart, but for the owners of luxury hotel group Aman Resorts, both locales share the same key qualities: charisma, tranquillity and unspoiled terrain. So that's how the luxury hotel group better known for its isolated tropical retreats - aman means...
Although pilgrimages to the Holy Land and to the shrines of Europe top the charts in popularity, almost any type of trip can be cast as faith-based travel, even white-water rafting. One of the most popular trips organized by the Windfall Outdoor Center in Maine is a run...