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A Crowning View

Posted on 16. Jun, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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They are opening the Lady up – all the way to the top. On July 4 this summer, the Statue of Liberty’s crown – off limits to the public since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks – will again be available for touring. The museum gallery and observation deck at the landmark’s base were reopened in [...]

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Fetish Food

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A free vasectomy from the clinic next door is one of the perks for male diners at Bangkok’s Cabbages and Condoms, the only restaurant in the world dedicated to birth control. All diners get a condom with coffee, instead of an after-dinner mint. In an adjoining gift shop, bouquets of condoms stand in vases beside [...]

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Baseball’s Valhalla

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Kerry Banks.

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A few years ago my brother and I made a pilgrimage to Cooperstown, New York, to see what is arguably North American’s most famous sports shrine–the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It was early summer and we drove down from Toronto, a seven-hour, sun-baked trip through a rural landscape of green rolling hills, cornfields and [...]