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3.21.06
Tourism Boycott for South Dakota?
Some groups are calling for a tourism boycott of South
Dakota after the state banned nearly all abortions,
according to a
story from last Friday on CNN.com. The ban prohibits
all abortions except to save a women's life, with no
exceptions for rape or incest. After it was passed, the
state was flooded with calls by people giving their
opinion of the law, both pro and con. Some groups have
called on people to boycott South Dakota's tourist
attractions, which include Mount Rushmore and the
Badlands.
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3.20.06
What is Your Global IQ?
United Planet,
a nonprofit group that works for cross-cultural
understanding, has a
Global Intelligence Quiz designed to test people on
how much they know about the world.
Let us know how you scored.
3.12.06
UK Paper Launches
Travel Writers Competition
The UK
newspaper the
Guardian is kicking off a new series of
Netjetters, a competition that gives travel writers
the chance to win cash, a camera and a three-month trip
around the world in return for writing a regular travel
diary about their experiences.
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12.16.05
Colonialism: C'mon, It Wasn't So Bad.
A French law calling on schools to promote positive
aspects of French colonialism has outraged people in
France and its former colonies. According to a story in
The Guardian, the law, which slipped through
parliament unnoticed last February, states "School
courses should recognize in particular the positive role
of the French presence overseas, notably in North
Africa." Critics of the law have said France was at
times just as brutal as any other colonial power,
pointing to the repression of Muslims in Algeria and the
slave trade that fed France's Caribbean colonies.
Discuss this story in our forum.
11.14.05
Next Stop: Rwanda
Ten years
ago, Rwanda entered the global consciousness as the site
of one of the most notorious genocides of the last 50
years. But today, its citizens are rebuilding the
country, and they want tourists to come see it.
According to an article in the
UK newspaper The Independent, visitors to Rwanda
will find a land of natural beauty, with national parks
containing wildlife such as gorillas, hippos and
crocodiles. But, it is still Rwanda. What do you
think? Can a land scarred by genocide become a
destination for tourists?
Take up the discussion in our forum.
11.07.05
The Rise of the Adventure Diva
Travel writer
Holly Morris, author of
Adventure Divas: Searching the
Globe for a New Kind of Heroine, was
featured on the National Public Radio program
On Point last
week. You can still listen to the interview on the
show's website. Morris,
who is also the executive producer and director of the
PBS program Adventure Divas, talked about her
travels in Cuba, India, Borneo, and about being the
first woman to ride in the traditional camel race in
Timia, Niger. The show also centered around the
experiences of women travelers and how they are changing
the notion that the globe-trotting adventure lifestyle
is for men only. We were so taken by the program that we
started a
new forum for women travelers.
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Mike
Riley is travel writer, full-on expat, and a very confused boy.
He was born in New York State, raised in Spain, lives in the
province of Xinjiang in western China, but calls Philadelphia home.
He is studying Chinese in order to learn a local Muslim language;
all that in order to study Central Asian and Chinese literature.
Mike loves his wife, hiking and Spanish soccer. He has had a travel
narrative published in an anthology called Europe on a Backpack..jpg)
Adina
Sara lives in Oakland, California, where she writes a feature
gardening column, The Imperfect Gardener, for a local
newspaper. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Cottage
Gardener, East Bay Express, Peregrine Press,
Entre Nous and Green Prints Magazine. She has
self-published two poetry chapbooks, To Be Filed, a poetic
expose´ of law offices, and Garden Grown, inspired by all the
mistakes she has made in her garden. She is soon to publish a book
on office work entitled What the Secretary Saw
— Tales From Behind Law Office Doors. She can be reached
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Writer
and traveler Joe Franklin was a contributor in our inaugural
issue last spring. For that story —