It’s a Jungle out there, Part 2 Sooner or later, in a world whose popular tastes are arbitrated by media and fashion designers, everything gets a chance to be chic . …
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This piece begins what will be a short series of articles on Nature and Travel. Nature-based travel, such as “eco-travel” or trips based on rafting over raging rapids, of…
California’s governfuhrer is proving to be one slippery dude. Ahnold sidestepped his problems with drugs and groping women to win his office handily over an opponent weakened by a…
It would certainly appear outrageous in this day and age for anyone to assail the widespread concern in American over healthier living. Health is unarguably the one facet of…
Remember Rodney King? Remember Abner Louima’s torture with a broom stick by members of the NYPD, not long after others of the boys in blue ventilated unarmed Amadou Diallo…
Ask Your Doctor In Hong Kong, where I have spent some time in recent years, doctors are not only permitted to write prescriptions, they are also allowed to act…
From Ovid and Sappho to Miller and Jong, writers have written boldly about love. But in this imaginary survey of genre writers this ‘thing called love’ proves to be…
Super Bowls are like Woodstock for the six-pack-four-wheeler set. Attendance at one is something of a haj , an attendance at the high altar of American pro sports. This most…
The customary salutation in greeting a Chinese is nihao (sort of “hello, how are you”). But Chinese often greet one another with the phrase chi fan mei ah (have you…
Immigration: Part Three. Some of my subscribers have already seen this piece, which was sent to them in email from Hong Kong over year ago. But it seemed relevant to…