By William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of
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By William J. Furney Resources are scarce on these Macaronesian islands. There is no rain, and life — plant and animal — clings on, desperately hoping for some kind of
Continue readingBy William J. Furney In a year marked by the loss of my father, whom I had lived with and helped care for during the past decade of his ill
Continue readingBy William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Garda (Irish police) checkpoints, traffic jammed and snaking back further than the eye can see, everything except places of business selling “essential services” shuttered for over
Continue readingBy William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,
Continue readingBy William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid. It
Continue readingBy William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise
Continue readingBy William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves
Continue readingBy William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they
Continue readingLetter from America By William J. Furney Someone was smoking in a toilet on the upper deck of the world’s largest passenger plane as it rocketed its way at close
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