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☆ I've been a tour guide in Rome for 16 years. Here are 5 tourist attractions that are worth it and 5 you can skip.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Sarah May Grunwald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

After 16 years of working as a tour guide in Rome, I've figured out the best attractions. But I think the Colosseum, Trevi Fountain, and Mouth of Truth attractions are overcrowded. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . As a seasoned Roman tour guide for the past 16 years, I would never say certain attractions have no merit. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ The 8 popular wines I never order as a sommelier — and what I actually get instead
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Sarah May Grunwald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I'm a sommelier in Italy, and there are a few wines to avoid ordering at bars and restaurants. If you're looking for a nice white, skip chardonnay and order a glass of Greek assyrtiko. After training and working as a sommelier in Italy, I pride myself on being able to find my clients their new favorite drink. But over the years, I've also learned which popular blends to steer clear of when I'm out and about. Here are some types of wine I never order and exciting alternatives I think everyone should be sipping on instead.

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☆ Roses Are Red, Love Is True. Here’s Why This Bouquet Costs $72.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Stefanos Chen | Adrienne Grunwald | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To gather every last stem and ribbon, Mr. Patrikis is on the phone constantly, negotiating with 15 distributors to get the best deals. “If you don’t know how to buy from the wholesalers, the wholesalers are going to buy you,” he said. Mr. Patrikis prefers the Explorer variety of red roses, which he said tend to have larger blooms and stay fresh longer than some other varieties. The elevated prices put pressure on longtime florists like Mr. Patrikis, whose shop was one of five on his block around 2010. Ditmars Flower Shop is now the last one left.

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☆ I've been a tour guide in Rome for 16 years. Here are 9 of the biggest mistakes tourists make.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Sarah May Grunwald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewMy husband and I have 25 and 16 years, respectively, of guiding experience in Rome. As we say in Rome, "Roma, non basta una vita" ("In Rome, a lifetime is not enough"). One of my favorite websites for up-to-date advice for travelers planning trips to Rome is Rome Wise. Italian food is seasonal. I recommend following advice from the local food experts at Casa Mia.

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☆ I've been a tour guide in Italy for 16 years. My top recommendation is an incredible ancient port city that's way less crowded than Rome.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Sarah May Grunwald | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I moved from California to Italy and have been working as a tour guide in Rome for eight years. The crowds in Rome seem to get bigger every year, so I recommend checking out Ostia Antica instead. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementI'm a native Californian, but I've been working as a tour guide in Rome since 2008. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Shein Still Needs to Prove It’s a Bargain
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jacky Wong | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A wide range of apparel at affordable prices has made Shein a sensation. Photo: Adrienne Grunwald for The Wall Street JournalBuilt-in-China online fashion company Shein has swept the world with its fast-to-market, hip designs. It now needs to show investors that its breakneck growth can convert into bigger profit, too. The company is probably looking for a valuation higher than the $66 billion implied by a fundraising round in May. That would put Shein’s market value comfortably above H&M ’s $27 billion but below Zara’s parent Inditex ’s $127 billion.

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☆ Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Files to Go Public
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Corrie Driebusch | Shen Lu | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Shein pop-up shop in New York City. The company has become one of the largest fashion brands in the world. Photo: Adrienne Grunwald for The Wall Street JournalShein, the China-founded online fashion company that won over hundreds of millions of shoppers around the world, has confidentially filed to go public in the U.S. in what could be one of the biggest IPOs in years. Goldman Sachs , JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have been hired as lead underwriters on the offering, which could happen in 2024, people familiar with the matter said.

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“Let’s light it up!” the actress Jennifer Lawrence said on Monday night as she helped to reveal the holiday windows and kick off the annual lights show at Saks Fifth Avenue. As is tradition, onlookers crammed behind barricades near 50th Street as performers — in this case from the Martha Graham Dance Company — flooded Fifth Avenue. Behind them, nearly 300,000 lights illuminated what is described as a “wheel of fortune” installation, which covered 10 stories of the Saks Fifth Avenue New York flagship facade. Ms. Lawrence, a longtime Dior ambassador, gathered alongside other actresses, including Tracee Ellis Ross, Rachel Zegler, Ashley Park, Alexandra Daddario, Lola Tung and Maya Hawke. They packed onto bleachers across the street for the show, which included fireworks launched from the roof of the department store.

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Image This year’s women’s race was oddly slow until the last few miles. Tola had arrived in New York with questions about his fitness after he dropped out of the marathon at the world championships in Budapest this summer. When she made her marathon debut in New York last year, she went out fast before struggling to a sixth-place finish. “Sometimes,” Obiri said, “you learn from your mistakes.”She put those lessons to use in Boston earlier this year when she won her first world marathon major. By then, only Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and two others — Viola Cheptoo, the runner-up in 2021, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time world marathon major champion — were still in contention.

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It was hard to miss Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas and Masashi Kondo at the New York City Marathon on Sunday. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made its way to Fort Wadsworth, where thousands of runners congregate each year before running the New York City Marathon. Speed demons wearing Nike Vaporflys and short-shorts mingled with casual runners wearing “Monsters, Inc.” onesies. That’s the record I’m going for. Running is therapeutic, even though I’m going to be running really, really slowly.

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☆ Joran van der Sloot confessed to killing Natalee Holloway. Why he likely won't be charged with her murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Joran van der Sloot is no longer the suspect in my daughter’s murder. The office told the Associated Press it was not immediately clear whether van der Sloot could face murder charges there. Joran van der Sloot (center) is transferred in a police car from the Ancon I jail in Lima, Peru, on June 8. She was last seen leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot and two other men. In court on Wednesday, Manasco said she considered van der Sloot’s “brutal murder of Natalee Holloway” in her decision to accept the plea agreement.

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Harrison set herself a goal of doing an unassisted pull-up before she turns 48 this month, and 10 by October. She has received dozens of supportive messages since she began posting about pull-ups in May 2022.

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☆ Opinion | Are Biofuels Bad for the Environment?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “A Climate Solution That’s Bad for the Climate,” by Michael Grunwald (Opinion guest essay, June 12):Mr. Grunwald stresses that “corn ethanol and soy biodiesel accelerate food inflation and global hunger” and points out that their production uses up a lot of land. It also uses an inordinate amount of water, which is scarce! Any effort to improve our climate that ignores population growth is looking at only one side of the equation. To the Editor:Michael Grunwald, not today’s farmers, seems mired in the “horse-and-buggy era” of agriculture. Today’s farmers use cutting-edge practices to grow more on less land with fewer resources.

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☆ Opinion | The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Michael Grunwald | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As America rushes to generate more renewable electricity, it has become fashionable to fret that solar and wind farms use too much land. But America is also racing to produce more renewable fuels, and they use much, much more land to displace much, much less fossil fuel. And that’s mainly because they’re inefficient land hogs. That’s a huge waste of precious land the world needs to store carbon that can stabilize our warming climate and grow crops that can help feed the growing population. Like direct payments, countercyclical payments, loan deficiency payments and other U.S. farm programs, biofuel subsidies redistribute tax dollars from the 99 percent of Americans who don’t farm to the roughly 1 percent who do.

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☆ To Curb Drunk Driving, More States Consider .05 Limit on Blood Alcohol Level
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Jimmy Vielkind | Photographs Adrienne Grunwald For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

ALBANY, N. Y.—Alisa McMorris totes a wagon filled with leaflets and a picture of her son Andrew, who was killed by a drunken driver in 2018, as she makes the rounds in the state capitol. The 49-year-old Long Island woman, a member of the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is pressing legislators to pass a new state law that she says could decrease such tragedies: lowering the legal threshold for what constitutes driving under the influence of alcohol.

☆ Six Exercises to Get the Leg Strength of the Rockettes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Jen Murphy | Photographs Adrienne Grunwald For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It takes more than flexible hamstrings to perform the sky-high kicks of the Radio City Rockettes. Incredible balance and stamina, as well as core and lower-body strength, are required to execute approximately 200 kicks during each show, says Danelle Morgan , the Rockettes’ dance captain and assistant choreographer. “It’s our job to make it look easy,” she says. “But believe me, we train.”

Victor große Macke is the founder of Farmerscent. Yet the health of animals affects more than just the quality and quantity of products like milk and meat. For farmers, weakened animals can quickly become a cost factor, as medications like antibiotics are expensive. Lavender oil to boost moodVictor große Macke wanted to find a way to promote animal health with a herbal remedy. "We hope it will get even better with the Internet," said große Macke.

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