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November 20, 2009 07:29 PM EST --   An interesting article rightly criticizing the New York Mets for having anything to do with the dangerously ideological, antagonistic Hebron Fund.   OPINION/EDITORIAL . . . more
October 26, 2009 05:45 PM EDT --   Indonesia’s Krakatoa may have had its most historic explosion in August 1883, but thanks to years of civil conflict in Sri Lanka it managed to find its way back into the news this . . . more
Why We Travel
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September 06, 2009 12:44 PM EDT --   Travel long and far enough and over time you’ll have looked out several airplane windows.  Through the oval frame you will have seen the glaciers of Alaska and the rice fields . . . more
September 01, 2009 11:51 PM EDT --     No American novel makes me think of Israel/Palestine like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . The smoldering anger of the Joads as they are displaced from their land and forced . . . more
February 05, 2009 11:07 AM EST --               Sitting by the lakeshore and looking up into a clear blue sky, it was hard to imagine that here, amid such perfect quiet, Mother . . . more
January 23, 2009 04:34 PM EST --               This is the fifth and final installment of my "Nicaragua in Black and White" series. The following photographs are . . . more
January 09, 2009 06:05 PM EST --               On Day Seven of my all-too-short visit to Nicaragua, I said goodbye to friends who had wonderfully hosted me in their Managua . . . more
December 29, 2008 03:48 PM EST --                 The first thing I said as I stepped off the bus in Managua was a word I won't bother to type up.  Dusk had . . . more
December 12, 2008 09:25 PM EST --               This is part two of a four-part series looking at different towns in Nicaragua.  To begin at part one -- Granada -- click . . . more
November 27, 2008 03:51 PM EST --   This post begins what I hope will be a four-part series on Nicaragua, where I recently traveled for two weeks.  The series will be a little different from most of . . . more
November 12, 2008 08:36 AM EST -- It goes without saying that for most of his presidency George Bush was, as CNN's Christiane Amanpour once termed . . . more
October 30, 2008 02:58 PM EDT -- During a ten-day stay in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, I often found myself at Café Fresco.  I went there because it was air-conditioned.  And when I . . . more
October 18, 2008 07:33 PM EDT -- To begin at part one, CLICK HERE   Back in Burqin—we were now about a mile from the tank blocking the . . . more
September 26, 2008 02:02 PM EDT -- Encounters between Israelis and Palestinians do not always go well.   This past summer, for example, an angry . . . more
September 12, 2008 03:30 PM EDT -- Rattle and Hum. Most know this as the title of a U2 album. But it can also describe something of the experience of riding a train. In some countries . . . more
August 30, 2008 06:41 PM EDT --     I appreciate a good piece of technology as much as the next guy, but I don't like to spend money on it.  . . . more
August 18, 2008 10:03 AM EDT --                 In November 2004, more than a year into my journey across Asia, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Georgia.  . . . more
August 01, 2008 06:58 PM EDT --                 Bangkok, Thailand   Some people travel abroad primarily to be still.   Popular venues for this include . . . more
July 17, 2008 11:23 PM EDT --                 An Old Mosque The Hazreti Suleyman Camii is a twelfth-century mosque in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir that . . . more
July 03, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --             The day had begun in the Chinese city of Kashgar, where I awoke to see thick winter clouds pouring cold rain onto the streets . . . more
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