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Ruby Wax finds magic in New Mexico
Saturday 25 April 2009
Last week Ruby Wax visited America's most exotic state for the first time since she was a teenager – and discovered a land where ancient tradition meets modern-day madness
American state boundary attraction misses the point
Wednesday 22 April 2009
It's a unique tourist destination of the Old West, and popular detour for road-trippers leaving Route 66 to visit the Grand Canyon. But the Four Corners Monument, marking the intersection of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, has for 140 years been harbouring a guilty secret: it was built in the wrong place.
Unordinary People: A celebration of British youth culture
Saturday 18 April 2009
British youth culture over the past 50 years has epitomised rebellion and self-expression. As a new exhibition opens, Charlotte Philby offers a snapshot of the young at heart
Hamish McRae: The West is losing the high ground as power shifts to the emerging nations
Sunday 29 March 2009
Economic view
Johann Hari: Clint Eastwood shows how America is changing
Friday 27 February 2009
The shift in one of America's greatest icons is a hopeful sign of cultural change
Moose, By Kevin Jackson
Sunday 22 February 2009
The moose can boast an impressive array of accomplishments. In this entertaining survey of the animal’s place in history and culture, we learn that it provided Chipewyan tribes with “parchment, leather, lines and cords … thread and glue … handles … spoons … tools … gowns, firebags, mittens, moccasins, and trousers”. All this and food.
Best of both worlds: Wyoming's Jackson Hole offers challenging ski terrain and swish hotels
Saturday 07 February 2009
Although other ski areas, notably Crested Butte in Colorado, might lay claim to the title, it is Jackson Hole in Wyoming that, by popular repute, has the most challenging ski terrain in the American West. Skiers and boarders come from around the world to tackle the steep east-facing slopes of the Teton mountains that run straight down to the high plateau of the Snake River Valley (the Tetons don't do foothills), and – if they dare – to drop into Corbet's Couloir, a well-known benchmark of winter-sports prowess.
Crisis of Empire: Britain and America in the 18th century, By Jeremy Black
Sunday 11 January 2009
America's founding myths are all bunkum
Tony Hillerman: Writer who won critical acclaim for his tales of Navajo crime fighters
Thursday 30 October 2008
The crime writer Tony Hillerman won critical acclaim as well as professional awards – from the Crime Writers of America (CWA) and the Western Writers of America (WWA) – for his vivid, lyrical and absorbing novels featuring Native American (in his case Navajo) sleuths at work in contemporary America. However, probably the honour he was most proud of was that of "Special Friend of the Dineh" which was conferred on him by the Navajo Nation in 1987 in recognition of his honest portrayals of Native Americans and their culture in the modern world.
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Diary of Second World War German teenager reveals young lives untroubled by Nazi Holocaust in wartime Berlin
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'Jail reckless bankers': Report urges the Government to introduce new criminal offence for reckless management
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Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
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Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed
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Vice pulls 'breathtakingly tasteless' fashion shoot glorifying the suicides of famous female authors from Sylvia Plath to Virginia Woolf
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