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It’s the spot everyone knows by name – Machu Picchu – but what most don’t know is that it’s not the only reason to make the trek to Peru’s Sacred Valley. Guides from Explora Valle Sagrado spend their days introducing guests to everything from ancient salt ponds and remote mountain paths to scenic lakeside villages. …
Each spring, journalists, politicians, and celebrities make their way to the Washington Hilton for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. The fundraiser for the White House Correspondents’ Association is a time-honored tradition that dates back almost a century. But it needs to end. The headline-grabbing performance by comedian Michelle Wolf, the backlash to her …
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“Git,” the cook said, “hear me? Git down to Winley’s and tell ’em I’m bad.” This was the new cook at our school, Mrs. Cullen, who had toppled over in front of me as I was beating honey into the peanut butter. Hot rolls flew up, the cookie sheet slapped the counter and came down …
“Hello, beautiful,” the guide says, in the gentlest tone, to the polar bear lumbering toward us. We’d been watching her feed on berry-laden bushes on the muddy shores of Hudson Bay for about 20 minutes before she noticed us and headed over to investigate her audience — a dozen people from all over the world …
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United Nations Security Council meeting on Yemen, on April 17, 2018. Picture by Li Muzi/Xinhua News Agency/PA Images. All rights reserved. Friends and acquaintances often ask me, as a Yemeni living in Australia, about the situation in my own country. The conversation usually concludes as follows: “We do hear about atrocities in Syria, but rarely …
“Glen, is that you?” The frail-looking woman lying in the hospital bed beside a dim light said to the man at her bedside. He had been hoping she would wake up and talk to him; it had been a few days since she seemed strong enough. “No, honey, I’m Ellis. Glen’s father. Don’t you remember me?” “I don’t …
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Refugiados sírios en Rio de Janeiro. Wikimedia Commons. The Global Compact for Migration should foster a common understanding on the main causes that force people to leave their countries of origin, and how to mitigate them. The document also provides protection and guarantees for the rights of those who migrate, as well as the need …
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Theologian, playwright, and novelist G.K. Chesterton inspired a slew of 20th-century personalities including C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and even Mahatma Gandhi. His criticism and writings on Catholicism were matched, in sum, by his detective stories that featured the recurring sleuth Father Brown and the criminal Flambeau. In “The Flying Stars,” an improvisational parlor game …
It was too early to eat ice cream when I pulled into Velvet Cream, better known locally as “The Dip,” in Hernando, Mississippi. But I had some anyway. Because at 29 years, 10 months, and 23 days, I had made it to my 50th state, just under the wire of my 30th birthday. It felt …
