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☆ Why this snowy Japanese island is a food lover’s paradise
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Milly Chan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Hokkaido, Japan CNN —Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Chef Tomoyuki Takao in the kitchen of his eponymous Hokkaido restaurant. “I realized that the indigenous Ainu people were the most knowledgeable about the forest,” Takao says. It was the first Japanese wine ever served in the iconic restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, and is a firm favorite on Takao’s wine list. The ocean’s winter bountyVideo Ad Feedback Discover why these clams taste best in winter 06:25 - Source: CNNSeafood is an integral part of Hokkaido’s food culture.

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☆ You probably missed one of the biggest shows of wealth at the Ambanis' pre-wedding celebration, and it had nothing to do with the bride and groom
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-07 | by ( Lauren Edmonds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThere were grandiose displays of wealth at Anant Ambani's pre-wedding celebrations in India, but the mother of the groom-to-be may have stolen the show. Anant is the youngest son of Nita and Mukesh Ambani. Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, son of Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries. AdvertisementThe Mirror of Paradise ring. Last weekend, Anant personally thanked and praised Nita during a speech for pulling the pre-wedding celebration together.

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☆ I regret moving to Florida. Living here felt like paradise — until everything changed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cassie Leigh, a 29-year-old journalist who moved from Pittsburgh to Tampa. AdvertisementAfter only a few months in, I liked living in Tampa so much that I bought a house. Living here felt like paradise — but then everything changedAfter 23 years in Pittsburgh, I was mesmerized by the year-round warm weather, living so close to the beach, and being surrounded by people my age. Wind mitigation is crucial; your insurance company could charge you more if you don't have the right hurricane shutters. I love the beaches and the weather, but living here is not worth the price tag.

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☆ I regret moving from Pittsburgh to Tampa. Florida is not the paradise I thought it would be.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cassie Leigh, a 29-year-old journalist who moved from Pittsburgh to Tampa. I've always heard people say Florida is a beautiful place to live, and I loved visiting the beach as a kid. In January 2018, I quit my journalism job in Pittsburgh and moved without knowing anyone. AdvertisementAfter only a few months in, I liked living in Tampa so much that I bought a house. Wind mitigation is crucial; your insurance company could charge you more if you don't have the right hurricane shutters.

☆ The Panama Canal Redrew the World’s Map. A Novel Explores the Lives It Changed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Celia Mcgee | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As far back as Cristina Henríquez can remember, there has always been the Panama Canal. She visited it every summer on family trips. The questions, however, didn’t occur to her until she was older: Whose lives, and deaths, lay behind a project so massive it redefined countries and redrew the world’s map? “I grew up going to the canal, but I didn’t know what I was seeing,” Henríquez said. And, “Free lodging and medical care.” “Work in paradise!”

Persons: Cristina Henríquez, Teddy Roosevelt’s, ” Henríquez, “, ” Locations: Panama

Between a few flecks of coral in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the blue. Since 2018, the China-Maldives Friendship Bridge has connected this archipelago’s hyper-dense capital, Malé, and the international airport — expanded by Chinese companies — one island to the east. But China is not alone in chasing friendship with the Maldives. The Maldives, a tiny tourism-dependent country of 500,000 people, barely registers as a blip alongside India and China, the world’s most populous nations. Yet every blip counts in the two giants’ competition for influence across South Asia, and that has set the Maldives on a zigzagging course between them.

Persons: Indira Gandhi Organizations: Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital Locations: China, Maldives, Malé, India, The Maldives, South Asia

☆ I've taken my kids, 6 and 12, on dozens of camping trips. I enjoy them more than traditional vacations.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Saba Khonsari | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The simplicity of our camping trips gives me room to rest and reset, and we connect more. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In the fall of 2020, during the height of pandemic hobby acquisition, our family of four set out on our first car camping trip. It's now three years later, and in the time since, we've been on over two dozen camping trips. There is always an element of inconvenience and discomfort in camping, even the rudimentary car camping we do.

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☆ How a warming climate is setting the stage for fast-spreading, destructive wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

This fire adds to an ever-lengthening list of rapidly spreading, destructive wildfires in the US and elsewhere. To understand why the Texas fires have been so fierce you have to look to last spring, said Luke Kanclerz, a fire analyst at Texas A&M Forest Service. It only took a short period of warm, dry weather for them to dry out further, providing a carpet for the fire to spread. Yuki Iwamura/AFP/Getty ImagesScientists are still working to understand what impact, if any, global warming is having on the winds that whip up wildfires. Research has found climate change is fueling the rapid intensification of hurricanes, pushing storms to explode at a deadly pace.

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☆ A flight cancellation stranded my family for days — and it was the best vacation we've had in years
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Alesandra Dubin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Last month, I was just wrapping up a short but sweet family vacation in Hawaii with my husband and our 9-year-old twins. When Alesandra Dubin and her family got stranded while on vacation, they made the most of their trip. We started to shift our mindset: We decided to embrace it and soak up our extra family time in paradise. Courtesy Alesandra DubinEventually, available flights started to populate travel search engines again, and I booked the family on a flight home just over four days after our originally scheduled flight. This potential travel disaster had turned into the best family vacation, and the best bonding experience, we'd had in a long time.

Persons: groggily, Alesandra Dubin, I'd, we'd Organizations: Service, Alaska Airlines, Business Locations: Hawaii, Los Angeles

☆ 4 reasons to explore Portland, Oregon, from tax-free shopping to mountain views and an award-winning food scene
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Insider Studios With | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Portland, Oregon, was named one of the best travel destinations in the US by Forbes. Here are four things you'll experience when in Portland that make it well worth a trip — or many. Award-winning food scenePortland's food scene is a true standout, rich in both quantity and quality. Also within Forest Park, visitors who want to mix nature and culture can hike to the Victorian-era Pittock Mansion. Explore the official guide to PortlandThis post was created by Insider Studios with Travel Portland.

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☆ How Google lost its way
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Hugh Langley | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Just two months after Google launched Gemini, its flashy new AI model, the company revealed that it had already built a better version. AdvertisementThen, days later, Google scrambled to explain why its image generation tool spit out racially inaccurate depictions of historical figures. Users have long bemoaned — and researchers recently found — a decline in the quality of Google Search results. The fact that Google is not far and away the self-driving-car leader, it's, like, a total joke," the former Google director said, adding that the problem of Google's lost supremacy is "maybe impossible to solve, frankly." Google now is reminiscent of the Steve Ballmer-era Microsoft, which missed the smartphone, search, and cloud waves and was overtaken by Apple, Google, and Amazon.

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☆ He booked a one-way ticket to Thailand the day after finishing high school. Now he’s a top Bangkok chef
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Philipp Meier | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“I’m both a night and morning person,” says the Swedish-born executive head chef of Nordic-Asian fusion restaurant Villa Frantzen, one of only two Nordic restaurants in Thailand’s capital. Courtesy Villa Frantzén Restaurant & Bar“The broad spectrum you gain from exploring cuisines from all over the world is what lends every chef a unique skill set and better fundament for creation. Courtesy Villa Frantzén Restaurant & BarA dish of grilled duck and endive. Courtesy Villa Frantzén Restaurant & Bar“And I can go a long time with few hours of sleep a night. Villa Frantzén – Restaurant & Bar, 7 Soi Yen Akat 3, Chong Nonsi, Bangkok; +66 (0)87 344 8222.

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☆ Spending in Shenzhen: Chinese used to escape to this former British colony. Now Hongkongers are heading in the opposite direction
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Chris Lau | Veronica Lin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Hong Kong CNN —With Hong Kong’s sky-high cost of living, residents like Andy Tsui have been looking for alternative ways to have more fun and spend less. Rather than spending his cash in his hometown of Hong Kong, he’s been crossing the border into mainland China to splurge instead. Such trips are noteworthy because, for much of Hong Kong’s modern history, the traffic has been largely — conspicuously, even — in the other direction. Hong Kong used to be the place where Chinese would escape to, not from. In 2023, just 26 million mainlanders — about half of the 2018 crowd — visited Hong Kong.

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CNN —An Alaska Airlines passenger accused of attacking another traveler with pens wrapped in rubber bands in late January has been charged in federal court with assault with a dangerous weapon, according to court documents filed in the US District Court of Nevada on Wednesday. Lopez is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Las Vegas on March 1, court documents said. The other passenger, who was seated across the aisle from Lopez, is a sworn law enforcement officer, court documents say. He also said that he felt the mafia had been chasing him for months, court documents said. One witness described Lopez as “fidgety” and said he was putting on and taking off gloves during the flight, court documents said.

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☆ ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Review: A Musical Paradise, Even in Purgatory
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Jesse Green | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the jaw-dropping Encores! It might not be immediately apparent from its strange framework that the musical could produce such an effect. The book, by George C. Wolfe, who also directed the 1992 Broadway original, introduces us to Morton (Nicholas Christopher) at the moment of his death. That’s when he is greeted, in a kind of nightclub limbo, by Chimney Man — so called because this forbidding psychopomp, played by the fascinatingly strict Billy Porter, sweeps souls to their destination. Accompanied by a trio of louche, bespangled “Hunnies,” he first puts Morton through a recap of his life, with an emphasis on his lies, betrayals and musicological self-aggrandizement.

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☆ Einstein's last message was a dire warning against nuclear war that's still relevant today. Here's what it said.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A new Netflix docudrama, “ Einstein and the Bomb ,” uses footage and reenactments of the famous scientist and his shifting view of nuclear weapons. It quotes his 1945 Nobel Prize address expressing concern over the future use of nuclear weapons, saying, “The war is won, but the peace is not.”Albert Einstein warned that nuclear weapons could lead to the end of humankind. The general public, and even many men in positions of authority, have not realized what would be involved in a war with nuclear bombs. But we now know, especially since the Bikini test, that nuclear bombs can gradually spread destruction over a very much wider area than had been supposed. Although an agreement to renounce nuclear weapons as part of a general reduction of armaments3 would not afford an ultimate solution, it would serve certain important purposes.

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☆ A boomer moved back to Virginia after living in Florida for a decade. She said she would 'never own another home' in the Sunshine State and loves the slower pace of life.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Nancy, a 68-year-old retiree, moved back to Virginia from Florida due to escalating costs and the heat. “There’s so much you don’t know about living in Florida and owning a home in Florida until you’re actually living it,” Nancy said. The Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey found that between 2021 and 2022, nearly 23,800 people moved from Florida to Virginia, while almost 33,000 moved from Virginia to Florida. AdvertisementNancy moved with her husband to Cape Coral 11 years ago after four of her five kids moved there. They settled on Cape Coral for the beach access and warm weather, and for the first few years, they made the most of their time there.

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Becoming a resident of Puerto Rico isn't hard but involves strict rules to get the tax breaks. Sean Flynn, a semi-retired IT consultant, moved to Humacao, Puerto Rico, in 2021 from Austin. If you want to take advantage of the tax breaks in Puerto Rico, you can't leave your children back on the mainland. Ricky Santana, Founder and Managing Partner of Colectivo Group, a firm that helps mainlanders move to Puerto Rico. Moving to Puerto Rico can give some Americans the best of two great worlds — financial incentives in an island paradise.

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☆ How to wear the runway — on your own budget
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Joi-Marie Mckenzie | Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On the agenda today:But first: How to wear the runway — on your own budget. "It's still all about simplicity," "America's Next Top Model" winner Eva Marcille told Business Insider at the Badgley Mischka runway show. And while some will pay a premium for designer fashion, others want to experiment with a dupe first. AdvertisementTens of thousands of young, high-earning professionals abandoned New York City and California during the pandemic, taking their coastal salaries to cities like St. Louis. BI headed to New York Fashion Week, where we asked attendees to name the status symbols they've been seeing and coveting.

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☆ Sterling, Virginia house explosion: 1 firefighter dead, 11 others injured – including 9 firefighters
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Christal Hayes | Paradise Afshar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A house exploded in Sterling, Virginia, Friday night as fire crews were inside, leaving at least one firefighter dead and at least 11 others injured, including nine other firefighters, officials say. The injured firefighters and two civilians were hospitalized after the blast, according to Loudoun County Fire and Rescue. ET “for an investigation” and were inside the home when it exploded, according to James Williams, the department’s assistant chief of operations. “This is a time where we need to support each other and hold each other up.”Officials say firefighters were inside the home when it exploded. Sterling is about 20 miles northwest of Arlington and is less than 5 miles north of the Washington Dulles International Airport.

Persons: James Williams, Williams, ”, Sterling, “, ” John Padgett Organizations: CNN, Loudoun County Fire, Firefighters, ”, WUSA, Washington Dulles International Locations: Sterling , Virginia, Loudoun County, Arlington

☆ Women in Iceland want you to know it's not a gender equality utopia, despite what the statistics say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +22 min

AdvertisementBoth Icelandic and foreign-born women told BI that though they largely feel safe in Iceland, it's no feminist paradise. "That was like a wake up call for many women," Thorgerdur J. Einarsdóttir, professor of gender studies at the University of Iceland, told BI. Some groups of women are more vulnerable to violence and low wages, including foreign-born women, women with disabilities, and trans women, the interviewees said. Older generations fight so younger ones can flourishBut despite these concerns, the women BI spoke to said that they largely felt safe living in Iceland. Women BI spoke to largely said they felt optimistic about the changes that future generations would bring.

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☆ I spent 2 nights in a luxury overwater bungalow in Belize. Take a look inside my $950-a-night room.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

On a recent trip to Belize, a friend and I spent two nights at the all-inclusive Thatch Caye resort. The resort sits on its own private island, and we stayed in a premier overwater bungalow. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. My friend and I had just spent four nights in a budget hotel and three days hopping around Caye Caulker, Belize. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ ‘No Beginners Allowed’: A Midwestern Paradise for Skiers Who Dare
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Tim Neville | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Feathery flakes had fallen the last 16 hours, luring every powderhound in a 100-mile radius. Given how remote this place is, that means maybe 300 skiers and snowboarders. With no wind the snow crystals had stacked up along the spindly hardwood limbs in lines as delicate as a haiku. Indeed, Hokkaido, Japan, might be the only other place I’ve ever skied that could match these conditions. To those in the know, this ski area, seven-hours from the closest major airport in Minneapolis-St. Paul, is legendary.

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☆ 'Anyone But You' could spark a rom-com renaissance in Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

A sleeper hit at the box office, the film is a "healthy sign" for the romantic comedy genre and other mid-budget Hollywood flicks, said Scott Meslow, author of "From Hollywood With Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy." In the seven weeks since, the romantic comedy has tallied $170 million globally, including $80 million from domestic theaters, according to data from Comscore. Between 2004 and 2010, Hollywood consistently released between 15 and 25 romantic comedy or romance films each year. Meslow said there was no rom-com "kill shot," a film or series of films that sparked the decline in theatrical releases of the genre. While some films will still be released only on streaming platforms, Hollywood has rediscovered the importance of theatrical as part of overall downstream revenue.

Persons: Christopher Nolan's, Scott Meslow, Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney, Meslow, Will Gluck, Gluck, Natasha Bedingfield's, it's Organizations: DC Studios, Hollywood, CNBC, Netflix, Sony, Comcast Locations: Hollywood, NBCUniversal

☆ Wealthy Californians are ditching the state for the 'Beverly Hills of Arizona'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The cofounder of Saints Capital previously lived in San Francisco with his wife, who also works in venture capital, and had a second home in Napa. AdvertisementSawyer is one of many Californians who swapped Silicon Valley for Paradise Valley. Paradise Valley, which has been called by some the “Beverly Hills of Arizona,” is nestled into the desert hills between Phoenix and Scottsdale in Maricopa County. An aerial shot of the golf courses and swimming pools of Paradise Valley, Arizona. Tim Roberts Photography/ShutterstockOf the more recent wealthy out-of-state movers coming to Paradise Valley, Levinson said the No.

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