The Wrong Kind Of Diversity
I heard a story recently at my alma mater, the University of Montana, which sheds some light on the peculiar logic of diversity, affirmative action and political correctness on American campuses...
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Tour The $1.4 Billion Terminal Delta Is Building At JFK
There are some 60 airlines flying into and out of New York-JFK Airport. Competition is fierce, but New York's always game for a little of that. Passengers are looking for the cheapest tickets (of...
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Travelers Say These Are The Best Islands In The World
Earth’s surface is 71 percent water, and our oceans are dotted with spectacular islands — tens of thousands of them — but some capture our imaginations more than others. See the islands > In Travel...
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How To Spot A Home That Might Sell Below Its Real Estate Value
Want to increase your chances of buying a home below current real estate value? Just look for a seller who didn’t listen to his agent. The best real estate agents encourage their sellers to do...
View Article10 States That Drink The Most Beer
Total consumption of beer in the U.S. has fallen for the third straight year, according to a report published by the Beer Institute, a beer lobbying group. Since 2008, total beer consumption has...
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'Dead' Man Turns Up At His Own Funeral In Brazil
If there's one surefire way to make sure your funeral is remembered, its turning up at it alive. That, at least, was the experience of Gilberto Araújo, a 41-year-old car-washer from Brazil, whose...
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Get The Landlord To Lower Your Rent When He Drops Amenities
Q. I just moved into an apartment in a full-service condo building. Prior to signing the lease, I was told that there were plans to add retail space and to construct a common roof deck, but that it...
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Brazilian Student Sells Her Virginity For $780,000 Online
A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for $780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmmaker, according to reports. Catarina Migliorini, 20, was the...
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WOLFGANG PUCK: These Are My Favorite Restaurants
The celebrated chef Wolfgang Puck shares his selection of the best restaurants in the world. Born in Austria, Wolfgang Puck trained as a chef in Europe before moving to America at the age of 24 and...
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Jessica Biel Wedding Dress by Giambattista Valli, Justin Timberlake wore Tom...
It’s a mystery no longer, Giambattista Valli designed Jessica Biel’s wedding gown. In a news release, Valli confirmed that she designed the gown Biel wore to wed singer/actor Justin Timberlake. The...
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Why It's OK To Drink Boxed Wine
By now most of us have seen it. Wine in a Box. What’s next? Plastic squeeze tubes of caviar? Kind of takes the romance out of it if you are gooshing caviar right into your mouth from a disposable...
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Asia's Newest High-End Drink Is Elephant Dung Coffee
Perhaps feeling pressured by Singapore's new $32,000 cocktail, one of Thailand's more elite resort chains is releasing "one of the most expensive and exclusive" varities of coffee in the world. The...
View ArticleHas Facebook Destroyed the Word ‘Friend’?
It is time for us to take back the word ‘friend’ from Facebook. Lonely genius Mark Zuckerberg didn’t have any friends, so he needed to create a system, a network, to obtain false friendships. He...
View ArticleTourists Are Flocking The Chinese Region With The Oldest People In The World
The terms "centenarian" and "cashing in" are rarely used in the same breath among tourism officials, but that may be changing—at least in a remote county in the Guangxi Zhuang region of China. The...
View ArticleTom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’s $20 million dream home
Model Gisele Bundchen and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s $20 million California dream home is finally finished, as photographs surface showing the amazing property following completion....
View ArticleMusical Swings at Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles
We love this interactive installation called 21 Swings at Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles. It invites people of all ages to play together in the center of the city on 21 musical swings. Strangers,...
View ArticleFrank Gehry Designs NYC’s Tallest Residential Tower
The 76-story skyscraper is rising a few blocks from Ground Zero, and near important historic structures such as City Hall (1811), the Brooklyn Bridge (1883), and the Woolworth Building (1913). While...
View Article$110 million One57 Penthouse, New York
Meet the most expensive home listing ever in Manhattan — a $110 million glass-walled penthouse overlooking Central Park on top of what will soon be New York’s tallest luxury condo. The six-bedroom...
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6 Gorgeous Private Island Retreats
This post originally appeared at Oyster.com. Owning a private island is overrated and it’s actually a lot of work — or so we’ve heard from our many island-owning friends. You have to deal with the...
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These Are The World's Best Airport Hotels
Tim Sargent once spent a week in Dallas, and never left the airport. Instead, he was checked in at the Grand Hyatt DFW, a plush airport hotel just outside Terminal D. “I’ve been there at least 20...
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