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Oktoberfest in Vermont
There are just some organizations that make sure any event with their name on it gets the big-time attention and fanfare. Mount Snow in Vermont...
Groomed for the gold
In August, roughly a million oddities from outside the Middle Kingdom will be dropping by for Beijing's 17-day coming-out party, which has been seven years in the making. Read the story
The beauties so distant from the din
Generations of Chinese poets and scroll painters have been seduced by the scenery of Guilin.
Father and son in Japan
Over two weeks in the summer, Alberto Rizzotti and his son Eric were able to visit many parts of Japan.
Fast Food Nation: Singapore
The melting pot in Singapore has something for everyone. Take a delectable tour of the city.
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An outsider talks trash
After nearly a week marching across western India to honor the ideals of Mohandas K. Gandhi, foreigners and locals gathered in a circle for evening conversation.
Burma
WHO: Tom Schultz and Shelley Reeves of Carlisle, both 52. WHERE: Mergui Archipelago, Burma.
A semester in Hong Kong
Most students abroad look forward to a taste of something new. Terence To wanted familiar flavors. In Boston, "I sometimes go several weeks at a time without being able to eat traditional Chinese food, which I grew up eating virtually every night at home." Born in Hong Kong and raised in New Jersey, the Boston College junior majoring in operations ...
Burma
WHO: Michael Romanow, 53, and Gary Kelly, 53, both of Westwood; Trond Skramstad, 47, of Newton; and Curt Allen, 51, of Marlow, N.H.
A year in Vietnam
Emmania Rodriguez is a Northeastern University student who spent her junior year based in Ho Chi Minh City. Her untraditional study-abroad program combined community service, field research, and classroom work. She lived with Vietnamese families throughout the country. Read more about Rodriguez's adventures at emmania.blogspot .com.
Golden to the eye, delighting the palate
AMMAN - At nightfall, Hammad Gaith walked briskly along busy King Hussein Street, past jewelers' storefronts hung with heavy gold chains and clothes shops glistening with beaded belly-dancer outfits. Gaith passed a newspaper vendor peddling his wares from the dusty pavement, then ducked into a narrow alley that wound up one of the steep hills here in Jordan's capital.
Doughnut Plant is on the rise in New York City and Asia
NEW YORK - At the counter of his Grand Street shop, Doughnut Plant, owner Mark Isreal stocks metal racks with a Willy Wonkaesque assortment of gourmet treats. There are yeast doughnuts, cake doughnuts, jelly doughnuts, square doughnuts, churros, cinnamon buns, and sticky buns. Isreal glazes and fills chocolate doughnuts with fancy French Valrhona chocolate; he makes a mashed banana cream-filled ...
The beauties so distant from the din
GUILIN - Mist-covered limestone mountains rise steeply from both banks of the Li River, framing a panorama of natural beauty and rural life. Lush green trees cover gray and rust-colored rock. Water buffalo graze on one side of the shallow waters, while on the other side, women wash clothes. Narrow bamboo rafts propelled by large oars transport villagers. Undulating farmland ...
Remnants of a prosperous past echo in Pingyao
PINGYAO, China - During the summer doldrums, fierce humidity settles into Beijing, mixing with smog from heavy traffic and dust from construction to create an oppressive atmosphere. For superstitious officials, 08/08/08 may seem like an auspicious date to begin the Olympic Games, but by August, those of us who live in the capital year-round are often desperate to escape.
China: a dense, striving organism
My wife and I left China a day before the May 12 earthquake hit about 150 miles from a city we had visited a few days earlier. This was Chongqing in Sichuan Province, where the population of the municipality, the city proper, and its large surrounding area is 31 million - five times the population of Massachusetts.