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☆ Renting an ‘Overlanding’ Vehicle Can Take You Where No RV Has Gone Before
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

POP-UP PARADISE Vehicles like those available from Colorado Overlander come with attached tents. Photo: Alpen Glow CreativeTO PAULA REYNOLDS, 69, the prospect of driving down bone-rattling dirt roads and camping in wild swaths of the American West did not sound like a dream vacation. She expressed perfectly reasonable skepticism when her sons, Adam, 39, and Andy, 34, suggested renting an “overlanding” vehicle for a week-long backcountry adventure through Colorado and Utah to celebrate their dad’s 70th birthday. According to Adam, they “really had to sell her on being able to see these untouched landscapes” and reassure her that they’d have a whole team behind them, with route-planning and emergency satellite communications.

Persons: PAULA REYNOLDS, Adam, Andy Organizations: Vehicles, Colorado Overlander Locations: Colorado, American, Utah

New Delhi CNN —The bulldozers and government officials arrived just before dawn, tearing down the row of shanties as its bewildered residents watched inconsolably nearby. CNN has reached out to the New Delhi and federal governments but is yet to receive a response. Rhea Mogul/CNN“I can’t explain how distraught everyone was as they bulldozed the homes,” Savita said. The demolitions are being done with extreme cruelty.”Savita helps her children with homework at a temporary home in Delhi. Modi sees India as a confident and modern superpower, a voice for the voiceless seizing the 21st century.

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☆ Colorado’s Western Slope Offers Gems That Travelers Often Overlook
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ S. African mother found guilty of murdering three daughters in New Zealand
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A teddy bear is seen among flowers placed outside where Lauren Anne Dickason, a woman charged with murdering her three young daughters just weeks after arriving in New Zealand from South Africa, used to live, in Pretoria, South Africa, September 24, 2021. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWELLINGTON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A jury in New Zealand found a South African woman guilty on Wednesday of murdering her three young daughters, with media saying she faced a life sentence for each killing. Her husband Graham had found the three children dead and his wife in a serious condition upon arriving home after a dinner with colleagues, New Zealand media have previously said. The prosecution said Dickason knew when she killed her daughters that what she was doing was morally wrong and the act was murder, according to broadcaster Radio New Zealand. Some of the jury were heard crying as they left the courtroom, media said.

Persons: Lauren Anne Dickason, Siphiwe, Dickason, Graham, Cameron Mander, Lucy Craymer, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Media, Radio New Zealand, Thomson Locations: New Zealand, South Africa, Pretoria, African, Timaru, Christchurch

☆ Jerry Mander, Adman for Radical Causes, Dies at 86
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

His son Kai confirmed the death but did not provide a cause. In 1966, Mr. Mander was working at Freeman & Gossage, an advertising agency in San Francisco, when David Brower, the executive director of the Sierra Club, asked for help in framing the conservation group’s opposition to the federal government’s construction of hydroelectric dams on the Colorado River. The full-page newspaper ads created by the agency grabbed national attention and angered proponents of the project in Congress, who denied the Sierra Club’s claims that the dams would flood and desecrate the canyon. “Now Only You Can Save Grand Canyon From Being Flooded … For Profit,” read the headline of one of the ads written by Mr. Mander. It included coupons with messages that readers could clip and send to public officials, including to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Stewart Udall, secretary of the interior.

☆ Drive Like James Bond: 3 European Road Tours Inspired by 007 (and His Aston Martin)
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SET-JETTING Pierce Brosnan in an Aston Martin DB5 at the Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco for the filming of “GoldenEye” (1995). GREAT VACATIONS leave daily life in the dust—none more so than driving tours that involve a supercar worthy of 007 and an itinerary with thrillingly scenic roads. Consider a getaway even Dr. No would say yes to: a jaunt that kicks off in Monte Carlo , Monaco, offered by Ultimate Driving Tours based in Melbourne, Australia. These road trips are booked by both sexes, said Julie Hunter who co-owns the company with her husband Anthony Moss. “Our tours couldn’t be farther from an adrenaline-fueled boys’ trip,” she said.

☆ Why Are Flip-Up Sunglasses Suddenly Everywhere?
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FLIP THE SCRIPT Vibrant colors and sleek silhouettes have made contemporary flip-up glasses genuinely covetable. SUNGLASSES HAVE always played two roles: to shield your eyes from damaging UV rays, and to make you look cool. Just what constitutes “cool” has fluctuated with the decades—remember our early-2000s obsession with bedazzled frames? But few designs have more questionable associations than flip-up, clip-on shades, despite their ability to cleverly block or let in sunlight via a hinge attachment. While aviator sunglasses evoke Tom Cruise in “Top Gun” and understated black frames conjure icons like Joan Didion and Jackie O., the closest thing the flip-up has to an avatar is the nerdy, well-meaning Dwayne Wayne of “A Different World.”

☆ A Locals’ Guide to Buenos Aires: The Buzzy Bars, Grills and Chic Shops That Insiders Love
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Brigid Mander | Photographs Anita Pouchard Serra For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

But don’t mistake this cosmopolitan city for anything but itself: Argentina’s elegantly chaotic, unique and alive capital and cultural center. Its cultural attractions have only grown broader and richer in recent decades. Excellent distilleries now supplement the city’s appeal to wine lovers, and its art, design, fashion and literary scenes continue to push boundaries. Even its culinary traditionalists, famously obsessed with meat-centric parrillas, or grills, have made room for upscale vegetarian upstarts. One constant: the locals’ penchant for a crazy-fun night out.

☆ India's Gen Z grapples with Modi's dark past in clashes over new documentary
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Yashraj Sharma | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Modi denies being complicit in the attacks, and India’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling last year that he should be cleared of all charges. The first part of the documentary is about Modi’s political career before he became prime minister. The second half of the BBC documentary, which aired in Britain this week, focuses on his leadership since then. Critics say Modi has promoted discrimination against India’s Muslim minority and quashed dissent, especially since his re-election in 2019. Students at Jamia Millia Islamia defied university warnings not to screen the BBC film.

As a woman in South Asian culture, I was taught that I wasn't supposed to be good with money. In fact, I can recall several conversations with aunties in our community advocating that we younger South Asian girls just "marry a rich Indian boy, from a good family." When it comes to South Asian women's relationship with money and their ability to attain financial agency, it's important to understand cultural context. "It became standard to try and pick up the bill, even when I knew I couldn't afford to, because this was something I'd seen up front and center in South Asian culture. Cultural expectations and narratives play a huge role in our ability as South Asian women to make different decisions, especially when it comes to our money and building wealth.

☆ A Rafting Trip in Utah For Only the Lucky Few
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

AS THE CURRENT of the upper San Juan River pushed past me, I balanced on a paddleboard wedged into a rock cluster on one of its banks. The green waters flowed down the same southeast Utah course they’d carved for millions of years, indifferent to my desire to stay put and contemplate the rock art—an array of handprints—on the cliff above. I’d almost missed this display, which my guidebook estimated to be about a thousand years old, give or take a century, its author noting that the handprints’ significance is unknown. As I took in the mysterious art, the only sounds were birdsong and river burbles, and soon, I gave in to the unrelenting downstream push of the water. I had to catch up with my friends Theresa and James and their 5-year-old daughter, Fiadh, on the sapphire-blue, 16-foot raft just downriver, not to mention the supplies we’d packed for our three-night voyage.

☆ Can You Actually Ditch Your Car for an E-Bike? Maybe
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Brigid Mander | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE For many riders, new e-bikes offer all the same functionalities one expects from SUVs, pickup trucks and sedans. EACH WEEKDAY MORNING, like millions of other American parents, Emily Lecuyer, 39, drops her kids off at daycare. Instead of loading them in a car, however, the CFO for an IT security company in Kansas City, Mo., transports her 1- and 2-year olds on her Rad Power Bikes RadWagon, a long tail cargo electric bike. After pedaling her progeny 3 miles to their destination, Ms. Lecuyer journeys another 5 miles to her office. She might arrive with her hair a bit windswept, but, thanks to the bike’s powerful motor, she never breaks much of a sweat.

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