
As the dog days of summer approach, there really hasn't been much bark or bite or trips to the beach or the ...

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We have a local food movement, which encourages people to have a smaller environmental impact by eating food grown within a 100 mile radius. Is the next local movement going to be aimed at water? Dr. Peter H. Gleick, the co-founder and p...

It was in the twenty square blocks that made up Central Africa's Owino Market, a kind of biblical-era department store, that I had my eyes opened. I watched fascinated as the locals got their hair cut and dyed in the open air; nearby, women sa...

In the old part of town, Barcelona can boast of several squares with this atmosphere of intimacy only given by the very architecture, by the space in between buildings. I mean, behind the next corner you may find a hidden spot with no sidewalks, few trees...