Winter 2014
Durban, the city that is always green. With a subtropical climate and the ocean breeze, its always warm and moist. Its the place I grew up in, and until I visited Jo'Burg I never understood the value of moisturizer. The coldest we ever get in winter in about 8 degrees Celsius, and we're generally st ...
Ferrari: fuori Montezemolo, dentro Marchionne.
É arrivata la notizia ufficiale dell’ addio di Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, che lascia la sua posizione dopo 23 anni passati in Ferrari. I rumors dei giorni scorsi si sono concretizzati. Sotto le sue ali l’ azienda di Maranello ha dato alla luce alcune delle sue più belle e straordinarie creature. M ...
Very small, far away. Very small, far away.
There's a story about Pauline Kael, film critic for the New Yorker back in the 1960's and 70s. In 1972, when Richard Nixon won a landslide in the US Presidential elections she apparently remarked "I can't believe he won. I don't know anyone who voted for him." Anyway. A couple of years before that a ...
At the Court of a Connecticut Yankee
Continuing with my theory that spending over a million dollars on property in America is a waste, here is castle in Woodstock, CT. Yours for US$45m. You need to go to the link to see the full extent of the horror.
Review of "Murder Tightly Knit"
Review of Murder Tightly Knit by Vannetta Chapman When a local Amish man is found dead, the Middlebury Amish Artisan Village comes under suspicion. Two amateur sleuths—one Amish, one English—will have to work quickly to keep fear from dividing their community. As fall blankets the Pumpkinvine Trail ...
Carbon management standard for airports takes off in North America
A ceremony took place at the 2014 Annual Conference & Exhibition of ACI-North America (ACI-NA) in Atlanta, in the presence of more than 1,600 aviation experts, to mark the launch of Airport Carbon Accreditation in North America, in cooperation with ACI-NA.
Doctors, Military Officers, Firefighters, and Scientists Seen as Among America's Most Prestigious Occupations
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2014 -- /PRNewswire/ -- When shown a list of occupations and asked how much prestige each job possesses, doctors top the Harris Poll's list, with 88% of U.S. adults considering it to have either "a great deal of prestige" (45%) or to ...
America's Cup teams already plotting course to victory
It's one of the most important times in an America's Cup campaign. The beginning. Get things right in the early stages, and it will be easier later. That's the position the sailors representing the six America's Cup teams were taking on Tuesday during a ...
America typically 'behind the curve' in Middle East, says author
A book hitting the shelves this week is designed to help the average American understand the importance of political and economic stability in the Middle East. Don Liebich has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and has been involved in ...
