I saw him enter the CTA Red Line train compartment. The same self-assured gait and that movement of his left shoulder to flex his neck muscles. The platform was teeming with people returning home for the day. It seemed as though the entire population of Chicago had gathered to witness my discomfort at seeing the man who had marred my youth.Wiping my sweating hands on my pants, I thought about getting on a different car.

Advocates of America’s Green New Deal or other radical efforts to decarbonize the world economy in the face of a looming climate crisis may well have one of their greatest champions in a rumpled 65-year-old who lives in the Toronto suburbs. Roger Gordon wears a navy wool coat that extends well past the bottom of his green knit sweater on a chilly day in February.

It’s somewhat hard today to appreciate just what an accomplishment the 145-page treatise A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts represents. Even the title of the 1883 work is misleadingly modest. One of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children, the book deals with treating everything from infant bowel complaints to hemorrhoids and diphtheria.

It was a classic "oh no, we're out of the one thing we need to have a successful dinner" moment. My in-laws were over, and we were 10 minutes away from sitting down to eat. I drove to the grocery store on a peaceful late-summer London, Ontario, day. As I was about to turn into the grocery store parking lot I heard barking. From out of nowhere, two massive, yellow-spotted dogs darted in front of my car as they ran across the street.I pulled over and parked, got out and surveyed the situation.

No sooner has your order been taken than waiters bring baskets of hot, fresh flatbread, salad and little plates of tzatziki. First-timers fill up on these delicious complementary sides, which is a big mistake: The main courses are huge. On Harringay Green Lanes, the trick is not to order starters, but it's easy to give in to temptation. At first glance, this seems like an unassuming stretch of north London street.

I used to work at the New York Jazz Museum, just yards from the old Studio 54. The museum is long gone, but it had put the teenage me in a place not only to refine a pre-existing interest in jazz but also to learn how to navigate celebrity. Essentially, don't be a pain in the ass, and make yourself useful. Good life lessons that have withstood the test of time.So while meeting a dozen or so members of jazz royalty had prepared me a lot, it hadn't prepared me in 1999 when one of my writers called me.

Img 20190126 084005 Zion National Park in Utah.Perhaps the scariest hike in America, Angels Landing in Zion National Park in southern Utah is 2.5 miles and 1,500 feet of rising, fear-inducing elevation, even for the most experienced hikers. The last half-mile is particularly notorious, with sharp drop-offs, narrow paths and steel chains that visitors cling to for dear life - after all, at least 15 people have reportedly died from these heights.

Our double-prop ATR 72 made its descent into Puerto Asís airport, a dot on the map about one hour east from our destination. Out the window, Monica pointed at the deforestation. Farmers had burned out polygon patches in the earth, eliminating the cedars and oaks that once stood there. The patches were hardly 10 kilometers from the airport."Before, when I used to take this flight, I looked out the window and all I saw was green forever," said Monica.

Margaret Van Vliet had long known who Donald Trump was. She had seen him at a few well-to-do New York City parties, and often when she was visiting the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan for business. But it wasn’t until they crossed paths at a private Atlanta hangar that they spoke for the first time. Trump was going up a set of stairs: Van Vliet was going down them. As they passed each other, Van Vliet could feel Trump’s eyes scan her body.

What do you get when you cross freestyle skiing with paragliding? Answer: the craziest, fastest, most extreme mountain sport adrenaline junkies can dream up.Speed riding is a high-speed, high-intensity and high-stakes (and, up until recently, mostly unregulated) mountain sport that allows for superfast speeds - we're talking up to 90 miles per hour - and access to terrain that would otherwise be off-limits to regular skiers or paragliders.