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As a cheap entertainment option when traveling, head to a book store to catch an author talk or reading. While movies have approached $10 or higher in many cities, book store readings are usually free. If you're in a college town or major city, your ...

While in the Galapagos filming we ran into an American writer living in Puerto Ayora, the big town on the island of Santa Cruz, researching a book about exactly the same subject of our film – the current state of affairs across the archipelago. ...

tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.gadling.com/2009/10/06/escape-from-chicago-with-low-fall-rates-at-the-abbey/'; tweetmeme_source = 'Gadling'; Several weeks ago, I had the chance to check out The Abbey Resort and Spa on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. 80 ...

Against the backdrop of a crispy clear afternoon in early September, I eagerly wait to see the historic Yale boathouse at the head of the Housatonic River in Derby, Connecticut, the training grounds for over 150 years of athletes, scholars, and ...

Katherine Cohen is a former reader at Yale's admissions office, founder of a admissions counseling service, Applywise, and author of two bestsellers about college admissions: The Truth About Getting In and Rock Hard Apps. As the summer season gets ...

Many years ago, a very good friend of mine was accepted to NYU but put on the wait list at Harvard Law School. She accepted at NYU and we soon set off on a five week summer trip through Europe. In Barcelona, she heard that she had been accepted to ...

If you've ever read Pico Iyer, you'll know that he is one of those rare, wonderfully eloquent travel writers who can really nail a destination and make you feel as though you were there. What you probably don't know about Pico, however, is that he ...

Along the lines of an earlier entry on anti-Americanism and business, respected Harvard Prof and writer Joseph Nye writes about the Bush adminstration's severe need for better PR abroad as both America's image and American business are affected by ...

The site Global Voices Online has go a lot of pretty informative stuff in their series of blogs. Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens' media project, that was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law ...

This post is the first installment in a twice-weekly feature column detailing the weird, the wonderful and the wacky world that is Japan. I suppose I should start out by telling you about me. I spent most of my formative youth in a small town 100 ...

No other island in the world has such a bizarre history as Anak Krakatau's. It appeared out of the sea 80 years ago, became home to dozens of bird and plant species, and then disappeared just as quickly. More volcanic eruptions followed as it ...

I've been monitoring Global Voices Online for a few months now, and am constantly impressed by the informative blogs they bring to my attention. It was announced yesterday that GVO won an award for Best English Language Journalistic Blog by ...

I posted about this wonderful book way back when, but just dusted it off from my bookshelf and wanted to mention in again. The fact is, most of us who live in cities easily forget how much of the world is occupied by millions of little creatures who ...

Israel is a land brimming with wonderful beaches and rich history. So, what's the best way to market that to the world? The government believes the answer is... "good-looking women." What? How disappointing. This public relations strategy is ...

Most of us who live in cities easily forget how much of the world is occupied by millions of little creatures who fill the forests, oceans, deserts, and so on across the globe. We should probably pat attention, because when it comes to both ...