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This week, our Cambodia embed, Tim Patterson, is giving us the inside scoop on the country.
Angkor Wat is spectacular, don’t get me wrong, but there’s so much more to Cambodia.
My goal in these guides is to give you the inspiration and know-how to experience the real Cambodia, outside the tourist bubble that surrounds the famous […]

The US Open started today, and right this second, Rafael Nadal is beating Bjorn Phau in a first round matchup. Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva has already advanced to the second round. (Roger Federer plays tomorrow.)
We’ve already told you where to eat at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, but we were a […]

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Last night our house guests sat at the kitchen table trying to check themselves in for their early morning flight. Everything went fine until they got to the seat selection phase. These four travelers found exactly one seat available on the plane. One. This is crazy, of course, but overbooking isn’t’ exactly new. We made […]

The debate over the drinking age in the United States is something we haven’t thought about in quite some time, but it has recently come roaring back into the headlines courtesy of 100 college presidents. The esteemed group of educators from schools as varied as Dartmouth, Colgate, and Ohio State recently signed a petition calling […]

Environmentalists have plenty of valid reasons to look forward to the end of the Bush administration, but when it’s all said and done, there may well be a handful of environmental positives to weigh against the ecological damage it has wrought. Case in point: the president is proposing a ban on commercial fishing and mineral […]

Why can’t I take a vacation without taking work with me?
This is a question I’ve contemplated seriously since I returned from my most recent week away.
When I taught at Yale, I felt an crushing sense of obligation to my
work but never much excitement. I packed my laptop, journal articles,
and the most recent draft of my […]

It’s been another tragic weekend in the mountaineering world, as ten climbers have gone missing in France’s Mont Blanc range following a major avalanche. A large block of ice triggered Sunday’s 3:00 a.m. slide on Mont Blanc du Tacul, one of the peaks along the route to the 4,810-meter summit of Mont Blanc, the tallest […]