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THE INVISIBLE AFRICANS OF TEL AVIV
AT LEAST YOU DON'T GET SHOT HERE | January 23rd 2008 Gideon Lichfield Gideon Lichfield , Jerusalem correspondent of The Economist, joins some Israeli soldiers on a food-run down Levanda street in Tel Aviv and finds that everyone he meets there is African or lost ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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THE ALASKAN HIGHWAY CODE
RULE ONE: YOU DO NEED WINTER TYRES | January 20th 2008 msmail/Flickr Julius Strauss has left behind his ranch in Canadian bear country to teach for a term in Anchorage, Alaska, where he learns some lessons about driving, renting and buying cars in the Arctic ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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NOMAD'S LAND
PETE BULL | THE AIRSTREAM DIARIES (1) | January 13th 2008 Tracey and Pete decide to sell their London flat, quit their jobs and take to the roads of Britain in search of a new life. The decision was the easy bit, as Pete explains in this first part of an occasional diary ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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EUROPE'S FUSS-FREE FRONTIERS
FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE IRON CURTAIN | January 9th 2008 daveyll/Flickr Adam LeBor drives casually from Hungary into Austria for a skiing holiday, and remembers when the borders between East and West were places of drama, skullduggery, even danger ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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BEN SAUNDERS, ARCTIC EXPLORER
HE GOES WITH THE FLOE | January 3rd 2008 All photos Ben Saunders/Flickr What does it mean to be an explorer in a world where everything has been explored? Ben Saunders explains to Joanne Ramos why he still wants to load up his sledge and head for the North Pole ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE MAGAZINE, December 2007 read more »
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GROWLS FROM GRIZZLY BEAR RANCH
A MOUNTAINOUS SUMMIT | December 17th 2007 Julius Strauss At his ranch in the Selkirk mountains of British Columbia, Julius Strauss finds that quad-biking tourists and government-approved bear-culling are turning him into a militant conservationist ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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AN AMERICAN IN KENYA
SOFT POWER ON SAFARI | December 9th 2007 carlosjwj/Flickr After moving this year from New York to Nairobi, Misha Mintz-Roth finds himself pleasantly surprised by Kenya's pro-Americanism, a rare commodity for an American abroad ... Special to MORE INTELLIGENT LIFE read more »
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