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The Thais will tell you that the annual Songkran festival (April 8 to 16) is all about thanksgiving and family reunions - and so it is. But the best part of it is the license to douse passersby with water. This practice is apparently a rite of purification, but given that...
Holidays are meant to lift the soul, but the tacky realities of package travel all too often keep one earthbound. Geneva-based hiking company A Different View transports its customers closer to heaven with its tours through the high-altitude areas around Geneva, and the neighboring Haute-Savoie region of...
Cecil Sharp house in London's leafy Regent's Park is nobody's idea of a fashionable venue. The spartan headquarters of the English Folk Dance and Song Society is home to such curiosities as tabor-drum workshops and Morris-dancing classes. Not a place, then, where one would expect...
Founded last year, it's Africa's first such event, and it's sponsored and supported by the Dutch, French and U.S. embassies, global corporations like Nestlé and environmental groups like the Ghana Wildlife Society. Last year around 1,000 attended, including Kofi Agbogah, a scientist from Ghana's...
Any woman who has been faithfully swallowing her daily calcium supplements in hopes of staving off osteoporosis and colorectal cancer can be forgiven for being confused by news last month that two major studies found that the pills provide little or no benefit against either condition. But as is so...