It’s been some time since we went to Yong An and the famous fishing port, so Hui-chen and I decided to head up there for lunch. Yong An has some of the best and freshest...
'Holy Cow!' my mom used to say when I was growing up in reaction to surprising sights or news. A raised-Catholic, meat-eating, first generation American daughter of Croatian immigrants, she may have picked the phrase...
We all have friends who have done it, or friends of friends who have done it: working on the cruise ships. Applying, being interviewed, being accepted, flying off to some exotic location only to be...
Cafe La Habana, where according to legend, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and a group of Cuban exiles planned the Cuban Revolution to take down the Batista Dictatorship. It was also a favorite hangout of exiled...
Yum! Brands, Inc. is planning to more than double its number of KFC outlets in Africa to 1,200 by 2014, according to the recent Wall Street Journal article “KFC Savors Potential in Africa.” Author Julie Jargon explains how Yum—whose...
With President Obama’s signature on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” this morning, 2010 ends on a high note for gay rights. With the defeat of the DREAM Act in the Senate last week,...
Miro interviews Joe, a public development & research economist, working on a project in Guatemala that studies chronic malnutrition among children.
“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future”
~John Fitzgerald...
Kristianstad, a town in Sweden with a population of around 80,000, tends to be known for its production of Absolut Vodka. But, this just in - it's now known for something else - something in...
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