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Asian Wanderlust Lives! Jamie James' article on concerns about the decline in long-haul travel to Asia as Westerners take holidays closer to home provided an intriguing glimpse into the key problems facing the travel industry today [Aug. 11]. One cannot, however, write off the promising future of long-distance...
For Covington the unexpected loss of so many old-growth specimens was a wake-up call. Before setting fire loose in the forest again, he concluded that the forest had to be made more fire tolerant, and that meant restoring it to its original structure. For guidance, he and his...
The first time I met Norman Lewis, the great intrepid traveler of our times was rubbing his hands together. He was already well into his 80s, but he was about to depart for a part of Irian Jaya where the last Western visitors-missionaries-had, he said, been eaten. "I...
Franklin's life had profoundly varying chapters. Pulitzer-prizewinning biographer Stacy Schiff, who is writing a book on Franklin's years as emissary to France, tells how America's first Renaissance man charmed the French into becoming an indispensable source of money and military might in the war for independence...
(2 of 3) Every regular rail traveler has some version of that story, so it's little surprise that rail has lost out badly as a means of transportation. In the past three decades, travel by private car grew three times as fast as passenger transport by rail - leaving rail...