Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight
On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse. Or so dozens of unsuspecting passengers thought. The curly-haired man tried to keep to himself, intently if inscrutably sc...
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Italians prefer to speak English to tourists instead of their native tongue
By max Antonucci On the first day of classes in Florence, everyone was talking about their attempts to speak Italian with the locals — easier in theory than in practice, mainly because of how many Italians know English. My teacher, Dorothy Barret, overheard and said she actually disliked how many Italians speak English. Barret, w...
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Slow Turism: traveling with attention to details
by Jane Huson You spend every waking hour at the office stressing about your clients, and when you're not at the office you are rushing to pick up Johnny and Jane from school or dashing to the grocery store to pick up Stouffer's frozen lasagna because you have no time to cook. Sound familiar? Many of us have grown so accustom...
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