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Once upon a time, the French were the standard against which I measured all things elegant and tasteful. I don't think I was the sole employer of this scale. In the States there are things, and then there are French things, and the French things are always much better. You tell me who is the big man on campus: toast, or...

On the southern tip of a windswept archipelago sixty miles off the coast of mainland British Columbia, lie the remains of a great civilization.

 

Tucked into a sheltered cove on the East Side of Anthony Island, the once thriving village of Ninstints (or Skuun Gwaii, or Sung Gwaii; there are many local spellings) is guarded by...

Everywhere in Kuala Lumpur, one sees the sharp contrast between ultramodern glass-and-steel skyscrapers and decrepit old wood-frame buildings. Shiny new luxury cars pull up at five-star hotels, while most cars are ancient. Giant cranes dot the skyline. Ten-foot-high steel fences hide slums, which of course are visible from upper floors of the...

To most people who have traveled to Holland's capital city, one thing is undeniable: Amsterdam is a city with a split personality - a more demure one during the day, and an astonishingly different one at night. Combined together, they have earned it the right to be referred to as one of the most colorful cities in the world.

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This season Absolute Adventures-Shark Diver introduced 144 excited divers to the wild world of white sharks during our eight-week shark season. What we encountered there on our first expedition was nothing short of spectacular and began with an ...