kayaker Mr Szulc, 41, has a lot to be grateful for after a close encounter with a great white at a popular US Cape Cod resort. Walter Szulc was paddling near a Cape Cod beach at the weekend when he saw the shark’s dorsal fin just behind him. He said he said he “paddled very fast” to shore […]
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Extinction in a Bowl of Shark-Fin Soup
The first time I tried shark-fin soup was at Time Warner’s annual dinner in Hong Kong, a few weeks after I had moved to the city. A server came to our table with a cluster of small white bowls, which a few of my colleagues politely declined.
Great Britain: You Can Walk Across It On the Grass
In this century, every decade has had its city. The fin de sicle belonged to the dreamlike round of Vienna, capital of the inbred Habsburgs and the waltz