By BRIAN REA MARCH 21, 2019 My mother-in-law wouldn’t tell us what our wedding gift would be — only that we’d have to travel to a forest, on an island, in Sweden, to receive it. The Voyages Issue Rick Steves Wants to Save the World, One Vacation at a Time The Mystery Gift at the End of the World It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives. There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway. The Voyages Issue By BRIAN REA When my wife and I were married, my mother-in-law told us she had a special gift for us. I wasn’t sure what to expect. She didn’t tell us what the gift was, but she did tell us where it was. In Sweden, on an island, in the forest. As with all magical places, getting to the island in Sweden requires some effort (particularly as my wife, son and I live in Los Angeles). After the plane, the train and a car ride to the countryside, a boat ferries us across the lake from … [Read more...] about The Mystery Gift at the End of the World
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How Jack Roush paved his way to NASCAR Hall of Fame
Carlos Monarrez Detroit Free Press Published 6:03 AM EST Feb 1, 2019 Jack Roush’s aunts and uncles didn’t love him. All right, they loved him. But they didn’t like him very much when he visited their homes between the ages of 5 and 10. “I had a screwdriver in my pocket and I would take their clocks apart,” he said. “And sometimes I got them back together and they worked, and sometimes they didn’t.” Not much changed about Roush, 76, in eight decades. Taking things apart and putting them back to together. Building things. Often from the ground up. Figuring out what makes something tick. A clock, a car, a man. Even himself. [ Matt Kenseth comfortable with multifaceted role at Roush Fenway ] That is Roush. The engineer. The teacher. The business tycoon. The racing icon. The Cat in the Hat. And, on Friday, the NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee as the all-time leader with 322 victories across three national series. “He was blazing a … [Read more...] about How Jack Roush paved his way to NASCAR Hall of Fame
John Fetzer’s Detroit Tigers success powered by Ouija board
Bill Laitner Detroit Free Press Published 6:00 AM EST Dec 30, 2018 When the Detroit Tigers won the World Series 50 years ago this fall, almost no one understood the quirky inclinations of the team’s soft-spoken owner, John Fetzer. Even fewer cared in 1984 when the Tigers won a second World Series, this time under a new owner — Domino’s Pizza king Tom Monaghan. Yet, the low-key Fetzer was still the Tigers’ club chairman. And clearly, it was Fetzer who had built that second team of champions. Today, John Earl Fetzer lives on in the memory of a few aging fans — but, more tangibly, inside a large triangular building near Kalamazoo, closed to the public and dedicated to Fetzer’s secret life: He was a closet spiritualist. This super-wealthy owner of television and radio stations was a lifelong believer in the power of mind over matter, and in his own intuition. A new book says that Fetzer relied all his … [Read more...] about John Fetzer’s Detroit Tigers success powered by Ouija board
Inside Facebook’s secret rule book for global political speech
By Max Fisher Published 1:05 pm PST, Friday, December 28, 2018 An employee at a photography institute checks his Facebook account in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Facebook shut down some sites spreading false information about the Bangladesh opposition days before elections. An employee at a photography institute checks his Facebook account in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Facebook shut down some sites spreading false information about the Bangladesh opposition days before elections. Photo: Associated Press Photo: Associated Press Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 An employee at a photography institute checks his Facebook account in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Facebook shut down some sites spreading false information about the Bangladesh opposition days before elections. An employee at a photography … [Read more...] about Inside Facebook’s secret rule book for global political speech
Destinations with views that are out of this world
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By Peter Kujawinski The New York Times Fri., Dec. 21, 2018 After 30 hours of bumping along on planes and buses, at long last I stood in the darkness and gazed upon an immense night sky. My long journey seemingly had brought me to the shoreline of interstellar space rather than the high-altitude plateau that is Chile’s Atacama Desert. It was the first night of a month-long journey to visit astronomy observatories in Chile, Los Angeles and Hawaii. Whether designed for professional use or for the general public, observatories nurture humanity’s explorations of the cosmos. They spark wonder and discovery, but even before I set foot inside the first one, I was seeing outer space in a spellbinding new way. That first night in the Atacama, arguably the best place in the world to see the night sky, the Milky Way proved true to its name: a milky-like smear stretching from horizon to horizon. The Southern Cross shone bright as candlelight. Both the Large and … [Read more...] about Destinations with views that are out of this world