I came across some fascinating findings on Grist the other day, that spoke about a study that examined correlation between Google searches for climate change and unemployment rates. Basically, the higher the unemployment rate is,...
The Swinging Sixties might have swung like an army of chimps on speed elsewhere in the world but, here in South Africa, life under apartheid was about as titillating as being stuck in a lift...
Senegal, says Moussa Faye of Action Aid Senegal, is the “epicenter of the farmers movement in Africa.” During the 1970s “rebel” farmers groups organized opposition to state owned cooperatives, starting their own...
Greetings from Paris, well...Antony, actually, a suburban slum filled with pissed-off Algerian immigrants who have been unable to find meaninful employment (or any employment, actually) for the past 60 years here, located about 4 miles...
Tonjiru is a soup made with pork and miso which is evident in it's name Ton (pork) and jiru (soup). Sometimes it is also called buta (pig) jiru (soup). It usually has gobo and other...
On the last day of my vacation in Mauritius, I decided to visit the dentist. With my non-existent US health insurance and my previous check up sixteen months behind me, I wondered what to expect....
Philadelphia Eagles wide receivers Hank Baskett, Jeremy Maclin, and DeSean Jackson during training camp at Lehigh University....
Chosen by a literary all-star jury that included: Monica Ali; Vikram Chandra; Jared Diamond; Peter Mayle; John McPhee; Francine Prose; Paul Theroux; Gore Vidal; and more.
Along the Ganges
Ilija Trojanow (2006)
An emigrant from Cold War Bulgaria...
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