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Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Is Detroit doomed or can the American car industry stage a comeback?: 5 of 23

I am a born and bred Detroiter, having lived in that town for all of my childhood until I finished college. As all Detroiters of the 50's, my life was intertwined with the automobile industry. Every school child took the regulation trip to the automobile plant to see how our wonderful American cars were built. This was combi...
Travel > Boat Travel & Cruises Cruises: American Safari's luxury cruise in Alaska: 1 of 2

Outside Juneau, Alaska - You would think that a "designated wilderness area" would emit nothing but silence, but on the contrary, we're listening to one of the loudest, most impressive sounds we've ever heard in all of our travels. It's the enormous, booming, earth-shattering roar of a glacier calving, or letting go, of a so...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Memorable cycling trips: 1 of 1

HOUSTON, TEXAS The mayor looks as ridiculous in bike shorts as the rest of us do. Those tight, shiny, neon-colored thigh- and butt-revealing pants make nearly everyone look as if they're nothing more than a bunch of bulges, but at least it was dark outside the Hilton Americas Hotel where we four dozen travel writers - gather...
Travel > Massachusetts Destinations New England destinations: Boston with the kids: 3 of 4

Talk about a small window of opportunity: Every town seems to have a children's museum now, but there is a small secure place in the Boston Children's Museum for a special, precious age only, and I managed to get grandchild Sam into it on one of his few visits to Boston from his New Mexico home. It is that section cordoned o...
Travel > Kansas Destinations New England destinations: Mystic, Connecticut: 2 of 2

If you like to go down to the sea in ships, head to Mystic, Connecticut, home of Mystic Seaport, the nation's leading maritime museum, also called the Museum of America and the Sea. The little town on the Mystic River, hometown of actress Meryl Streep, is beautiful even without the museum, but Mystic Seaport is now its core ...