HOSTEL, a fellow tourist once warned me, is Dutch for “Bring your own towel!” Actually, she used stronger language, and her hostility was so raw that I began to squirm. Her comment came to mind last May, when I began planning a cheap weekend trip to Barcelona, Spa...
Every war is entitled to a name. World War II was a warmed-over name, and the Korean conflict was not at first even given the name of “war,” which Vietnam rated until it was overtaken by “syndrome.” And not until 1947 was our intense but not-hot war against the Sovie...
The subject of disappearing languages has been in the news for some time — the standard prediction is that roughly half of the 6,000 languages currently spoken are, as Unesco puts it, “doomed” — but it has recently been given new impetus in the United States by the f...
MADRID -- When Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega graduated from law school in the 1970s, Spanish law prohibited her -- and any other woman -- from becoming a judge, serving as a witness in court or opening a bank account. Today, the angular, outspoken 57-year-old ...
CHENJIAYUAN, China — For many Chinese, an ancestor is someone to honor, but also someone whose needs must be maintained. Families burn offerings of fake money or paper models of luxury cars in case an ancestor might need pocket change or a stylish ride in the netherw...
'Everybody has a cartoon of themselves,' suggests David Remnick, the editor of a magazine famous for them. 'Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.' As New Yorker cartoons go, the image wouldn't appear to hold much promise of a punch...
The first thing they tell you here is not to play with the gorillas or the elephants. A young male elephant gored a young Italian woman here when he attempted to play with her. And if you creep too close to the gorillas, a 375-pound silverback will charge you and,...
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