50 side businesses to set up from home

If you are one of the rising number of people working part-time, earn some extra cash in dog walking or rampant veg growing Happy days are here again – or so you might assume from a recent wave of optimistic reports about the economic outlook and rising consumer confidence . But while unemployment is down, the latest labour market figures reveal a surge in part-time jobs as employers remain ...

Miriam's quilts

News-Times/Candace Blomendahl Miriam Peterson of York picks a few stray threads off her quilts at The Quilt Basket in York. Peterson’s quilts will be on display at The Quilt Basket for the rest of the month.

The slave market of Zanzibar is a site made sacred by history

Stories of cruelty and suffering abound here, and still strike at the conscience As the Ground Zero mosque saga in New York demonstrated, certain points on the map become sacred because of their history – but quite how to consecrate them is a prickly question of justice and taste. South Africa's constitutional court, for example, is built at the site of a notorious jail where thousands of black ...

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The site is intuitive to navigate for travelers who do not speak English as a first language. A great resource for off the beaten path locations and events in over 2500 cities and towns across America.

Shooting for the stars

A self-taught photographer is enjoying phenomenal success in just five years through his constant quest to improve.