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After years of battling over the thousands of pieces of pottery, jewelry and bones, taken from Machu Picchu 90 years ago, Peru is winning the war. The artifacts were lent to Yale University for 18 months but the university has apparently kept them ...

According to a story posted on AdventureJourney.net, a website dedicated to adventure travel, the country of Peru is suing Yale University, for the return of a number of artifacts taken from the country nearly a century ago when legendary explorer ...

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 ...

New Haven, Connecticut has a bad rep. To most, it's at best a town you travel through on your way between Boston and New York. But as I've written recently in my travel series on New Haven, the town has experienced a tremendous renaissance in the ...

Read part 1 of this story first. A couple weeks later, with a little more confidence under our belt and a little more knowledge in our heads, we come back to the boathouse to race against some of the other freshmen. After a short motivational group ...

There's "YAYcation" where you say to heck with the economy and go on the trip anyway. On the opposite end, there's a "staycation" where you pretend your yard is somewhere interesting. Then there's Scott's devious suggestion, "liecation." Here's an ...

Sights New Haven Green (Dawn to dusk) One of the oldest town commons in the country, the Green brings back memories of colonial America, with its three historic churches and ancient elm trees. Oh, and it used to be the town cemetery (no surprise it ...

It's the real life version of the Priory of Sion, the secret organization in Dan Brown's bestseller Da Vinci Code. Skulls & Bones, Yale's oldest and most prestigious secret society-reserved only for a select fifteen lucky members of the senior ...

Tucked away on the northern shores of Long Island Sound, halfway between New York and Boston, the lively city of New Haven is often overlooked by its seemingly more glamorous (and bigger) neighbours. Granted, it's best known for world-renown Yale ...

The Omni Hotel in downtown New Haven is a classic Ivy-League retreat, complete with the Mahogany panelling. Catering to an older and more affluent crowd (aka the parents of Yalies), the hotel offers the best rooms and service in town. And it's hard ...

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 ...

Jack London never received a college education. Well, not officially at least. He did, however, get his hands on class reading lists from UC Berkeley and then proceeded to consume all of the books featured--which is far more than most students ...

Though Zipcar--the largest car-sharing service in the US--boasts 180,000 members and 5,000 cars in more than 50 cities across the states, Europe, and Canada, chances are you still haven't heard of them. In late October of last year, Zipcar merged ...

This week, the New York Times travel section started a series on sustainable traveling. The inaugural column, headlined "Can Darwin's Lab Survive Success," is probably the quintessential case for illustrating the pros and cons of eco-tourism. A ...

Fans of our America's 43rd president will finally have something to rejoice about later this month when the new Bushland presidential theme park opens. Built atop the breeding grounds of the endangered Texas blind salamander, Bushland embraces the ...