I can't remember the last picnic I went on. I mean one of those classic old-fashioned picnics where you take a blanket and a hamper, a cooler, maybe, or a thermos, and drive out to the countryside and sit down peacefully in a lovely field of wild flowers, alone with nature, and ... have a picnic.
Two top North Korean diplomats were traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to hold talks with Gov. Bill Richardson, the governor's spokesman said.
Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner resigned as leader of the ruling political party Monday following a poor showing in Sunday's elections, the official news agency Telam reported.
Rescue teams Thursday discovered the bodies of two people killed in a helicopter crash that happened Tuesday in the mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The pilot of a helicopter that went missing near a mountain in New Mexico talked to dispatchers just after the craft struck a mountainside, a state official told CNN.
Preparing for summer camp can be stressful.
In the midst of a struggling economy, the Small Business Administration is hoping to create jobs and generate wealth in hard-hit urban communities by boosting small-business growth through its Emerging 200 initiative.
Farmers in Argentina blocked highways and rural routes throughout the country to protest anew the lack in progress in negotiations with the government over export taxes on farm goods.
Taos feels like a comfortable Navajo blanket, wrapping you with coziness and color. Pueblos with their sandy hues. Warmth despite the snow on the ground and majestic mountains as a backdrop. Crackling fires in kiva fireplaces and smoke billowing from chimneys.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2009 Dozen Distinctive Destinations range from a quintessential New England waterfront community to an Old West boomtown in Nevada.
I can't remember the last picnic I went on. I mean one of those classic old-fashioned picnics where you take a blanket and a hamper, a cooler, maybe, or a thermos, and drive out to the countryside and sit down peacefully in a lovely field of wild flowers, alone with nature, and ... have a picnic.
Two top North Korean diplomats were traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to hold talks with Gov. Bill Richardson, the governor's spokesman said.
Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner resigned as leader of the ruling political party Monday following a poor showing in Sunday's elections, the official news agency Telam reported.
Rescue teams Thursday discovered the bodies of two people killed in a helicopter crash that happened Tuesday in the mountains near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The pilot of a helicopter that went missing near a mountain in New Mexico talked to dispatchers just after the craft struck a mountainside, a state official told CNN.
Preparing for summer camp can be stressful.
In the midst of a struggling economy, the Small Business Administration is hoping to create jobs and generate wealth in hard-hit urban communities by boosting small-business growth through its Emerging 200 initiative.
Farmers in Argentina blocked highways and rural routes throughout the country to protest anew the lack in progress in negotiations with the government over export taxes on farm goods.
Taos feels like a comfortable Navajo blanket, wrapping you with coziness and color. Pueblos with their sandy hues. Warmth despite the snow on the ground and majestic mountains as a backdrop. Crackling fires in kiva fireplaces and smoke billowing from chimneys.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2009 Dozen Distinctive Destinations range from a quintessential New England waterfront community to an Old West boomtown in Nevada.
Have you ever gotten a gift so ugly, so utterly not you, that you can't even fake a kind response? That's how I felt opening a box that contained the silver-plated, faux-turquoise-encrusted bracelet my then boyfriend gifted me one Christmas.
The northern province of Santa Fe usually boasts lush vegetation in September -- the Southern Hemisphere's spring -- but not this year, as Argentina grapples with its worst drought in a century.
A rediscovered film from 1961 offers an incisive portrait of Native Americans in L.A.
"There ain't but one truth," said John Grady. "The truth is what happened. It ain't what come out of somebody's mouth." - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
Disagreements between the Argentine government and farmers over export taxes flared up Wednesday as drivers used their trucks to snarl traffic.
They were a long way from home when they first spotted their newest teammate and, though none of them had ever seen him before, it didn't take long to figure out which of the players in the Atlético Paranaense dining room they'd soon be meeting.
From laid-back Florida beaches to guided mule rides in the Grand Canyon's North Rim, our editors picked these getaways with the average American family's tax rebate of $1,200 in mind.
Land-clearing fires covered Buenos Aires in thick black smoke in a huge ecological mess. The president blames her political foes: the farmers
Farmers and their supporters protested Wednesday in hundreds of rural locations in Argentina on the two-week mark of the farmers' strike against an increase in export taxes for their products.
U.S. stocks eased at Monday's open, with investors considering some comments about the economy and awaiting a key report on manufacturing.
Move over, Valentino and Oscar de La Renta: At this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, the couture giants best known for dressing celebrities for their walk down the year's most-watched red carpet have some competition from a small-business owner and designer in Santa Fe.
Dear FSB: In a previous question you addressed charitable contributions. Here is my issue: if an artist donates a piece of their art to a museum, can he take the deduction at cost plus 50% of fair market value?
If experience were the only qualification, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson would be a shoo-in for president.
Whether it's dining, shopping, culture, nightlife or people, everybody has a favorite city. Some cities are great places to live and raise a family. Others provide the backdrop for that once-in-a-lifetime vacation.
Valerie Plame Wilson, the former covert CIA agent unmasked after husband Joe Wilson wrote an op-ed critical of Iraq WMD intelligence, gives her side of the story in the new book Fair Game. Wilson, now living with her family in Santa Fe, N.M., talked to PEOPLE about being outed and the strain that it put on her marriage – as well as her advice for her 7-year-old twins and her struggle with postpartum depression.
Holleigh Davis adores shopping at flea markets. As a schoolteacher in Columbus, Georgia, she finds lots of time in the summer to stalk the stalls. She shops for her house, for her classroom, for herself.
A socialist easily beat a candidate allied with Argentine President Nestor Kirchner for the governorship of a key province in a test of the strength of Kirchner's ruling coalition ahead of next month's presidential vote.
Do you worry too much about the environment? Psychologists now have a name for your condition: eco-anxiety
Question: My understanding is that due to the tax-deferred nature of retirement accounts, I ought to steer risky investments like international funds and individual stocks into my IRA and 401(k), while keeping mainstays like bonds and large-company stocks in taxable accounts. Is this a good policy? - Gary Banks, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Golf Trails are supposed to make planning your buddy trip easier: one decision reaps many rounds. But the U.S. now has almost as many trails as it does past presidents: nearly 40 collections of courses that run the gamut from master-planned marriages to ragtag unions. But even Mt. Rushmore only celebrates four of our 43 presidents, so here are our picks as the four best multi-stop shops for your next golf trip.
How do you know that you've hired the wrong employee - or waited too long to fire him? If you find two duffel bags full of semiautomatic weapons under his desk , that's a pretty good sign. No, that's not a hypothetical example, although the small-company CEO who told us the story asked that we not use his name. (We can't say we blame him.)
In December, New Mexico's historic capital glows like its famous farolitos -- and a visit renews the classic joys of the holidays. Read on for some tips on planning your trip.
It's easy to love Santa Fe during the holidays. Visit the historic Plaza on any chilly, clear evening from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day, and I challenge you not to be entranced by the silvery lights strung on every tree, sparkling against the dusk. In the last glow of the sunset, the adobe buildings lining the Plaza blush like schoolgirls.
Barrydale -- 100 miles east of Cape Town -- is becoming a South African Santa Fe, with galleries, wineries, boutique hotels and hiking trails set amid the Western Cape's vast Klein Karoo. Below, an easy itinerary.
Santa Fe is a throwback. As other landlocked Western cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix grow at warp speed, this nearly 400-year-old town quietly holds on to its charm.
President Bush's proposed guest worker program is dividing Republicans ahead of a Senate vote on an immigration bill next week. CNN's Jack Cafferty asked viewers of the "Situation Room" what needs to be debated when it comes to immigration reform. Here is a selection of their responses, sent in by e-mail:
75-a-night bed and breakfast dubbed "The Little Purple House." By hewing to the existing structure--and doing much of the work herself--she produced a garden getaway with loads of charm at little cost. Running a B&B in Perrysburg (a quaint river town outside Toledo that's also home to her artsy shop, Santa Fe Way) has proved to be a satisfying investment. Opened last year, the place already is booked most weekends, says Mather Bothe, who spends maybe $15 per guest on food, drinks and supplies. Flowers come from her garden in the summer. "The rest," she says, "is pure profit," and covers her property's $463 monthly mortgage payment. ...
Hurricane Rita caused record damage to offshore oil and natural gas rigs, according to a published report, and that could delay exploratory drilling planned to meet the world's growing appetite for oil.
How to make a $5,000 renovation pay you about $600 a month? Ask Christine Mather Bothe of Perrysburg, Ohio, who converted a detached one-car garage added to her 1913 bungalow in the 1930s into a $7...
In an age of heated competition for guests, posh hotels often offer more than just a nice place for pampered travelers to lay down their weary bones.
In early 1999, David Barnes, an executive who manages wind farms for investment bank Babcock & Brown, bought a modest stucco ranch in a bedroom community near San Diego for $350,000. He wanted it f...
A Los Alamos National Laboratory whistle-blower who was set to testify before Congress was severely beaten in an attempt to silence him, his wife and lawyer said.
Thanks to an onslaught of home design magazines, TV shows and coffee-table books, real estate buyers these days are not only savvier about architecture, they'll pay a premium for a house designed b...
There's something not quite right about the phrase "luxury hiking." Hoofing it through woods and up canyon trails is an unavoidably sweaty proposition, and the toilet "behind that big rock" is hard...
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Sometimes, it's nice to get away from it all. Even if "it all" is scenic Santa Fe, New Mexico.
With less than two weeks to go until November 2, the CNN Election Express is on a final dash across the country to bring you campaign news from all corners of the United States.
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The leaders of an outlawed, far-right paramilitary group have agreed to lay down their arms and move to a small town in northern Colombia, where they will be watched by international observers, a government spokesman said Thursday.
Travel always provides a wealth of experiences. Have you ever had an interesting, crazy, amazing or bizarre incident whilst overseas on business? We want to hear about what you've been upto. Have your say with CNN.
Jealousy runs rampant in my broadband heart. Someone has faster Internet access than I do. And this feeling is only getting worse.
Hot time, summer in the city, goes the song. Yes, there are many who prefer the city to the country, even in summer, and for them, Chicago tops the list.
The impresario P.T. Barnum knew what he wanted from a vacation. Demanding relief from the daily grind of noisy hucksterism, he needed a place to recharge and renew. "For mental rest and physical co...
To eat badly in Santa Fe is a sin. Mea non culpa! Feeling sprightly, I asked the concierge to recommend someplace fun. She sent me to a Tex-Mex trash heap. I can only presume she was FRIENDLY with ...
The floors creak, the doors lock only from the inside, and the walls are paper thin -- so whispering is the norm. If this doesn't sound appealing, it's because the strange beauty of Big Sur California's Deetjen Inn so defies description.
PARDON ME WHILE I WHINE A LITTLE.
Over the past three years, dear reader, I know that you've empathized with my digital travails, particularly my attempts to wire Digital Manor, our house near San Francisco. Now I'm starting on a n...
This was the week that everything broke, at least in terms of computing. Having had an experience like this, I could wax philosophical about how machines are taking over our lives, but I won't--we ...
I feel compelled to ask the question: Is the Internet dead? I'm on the board of a company whose shares are valued at about a quarter of cash on hand. I hold a chunk of Webvan, whose shares are also...
The 45-year-old Hapka founded Rhythms NetConnections Inc., based in Englewood, Colo., in 1997. She's now chairman and CEO of the fast-growing company, which provides high-speed Internet access. Bef...
Warning signs, in this column, usually point to impending trouble. But if you look at those same indicators in reverse, you get another kind of alert: Call it a positive warning. These are the sign...
Unhappy with their apartment in Riverdale, N.Y., Phyllis Magidson and her husband began house hunting in nearby Westchester County last fall. Their eight-month search was filled with disappointment...
An hour: Who says L.A. has no history? For 73 years the Delgado family, at Candelas Guitars (2724 Cesar Chavez Avenue, 323-261-2011), has been handcrafting guitars in rosewood and mahogany for the ...
Don't be a fashion victim. Following the in crowd to the usual summer watering holes (the Hamptons, Santa Fe) means wasting precious vacation days sitting in traffic or standing in line for ice cre...
Once a brothel, then a jailhouse, this 200-year-old-plus adobe ($965,000) sits on 3 3/4 acres some 16 miles north of Santa Fe; a historic landmark, it still has bars on one window. The 4,100-square...
To my left is a big-bellied guy gnawing on a pork rib. To my right, a fellow of similar girth is being interviewed by a TV crew as he butchers a whole hog. All around me are tents and booths with s...
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For years, your odds in Las Vegas were better at baccarat than they were at the dinner table. But today Vegas is a boomtown, and some great restaurants have opened in the splashy new hotels on the ...
If shuffling out of your condo and climbing aboard the Happy Hills van--which will whisk you away to the climate-controlled splendor of the nearby mall--isn't your idea of how you want to spend you...
This is a tricky time of year for mutual fund investors. After advances averaging 27% in 1995, "many funds are poised to make larger-than-average capital-gains distributions this December," says Mo...
Considering that the stuff has been around for at least 6,000 years, and that historians think it may have been invented even before bread, and that 70% of the adult American population uses it, an...
TRYING TO TEACH leadership may be a lot like trying to teach sex. If you really need lessons, well . . . Or that was the old view, part of the you-have-the-right-stuff-or-you-don't school. Getting ...
JOHNNIE BRYAN HUNT was bagging more rice hulls than he could sell to poultry farmers for chicken litter in the 1970s, so he decided to look for new customers. He painted a horse on the package, kno...
Yearning to own museum-quality art on a budget? It can be done -- again. Thanks to a slump that has depressed prices by up to 15% since early 1990, you can now buy vintage photographs for a few tho...
Financially strapped cities and states are increasingly pushing so-called mini-munis as a way to raise cash from local investors. These midget tax- exempt bonds, which cost $2,500 or less, offer yi...
Even though 1992 is shaping up as the year of low yields, investors need not settle for paltry returns, such as today's meager 5% on one-year bank certificates of deposit. Instead, you can get a so...
U.S. corporations hoping to profit from economic unity in Europe and freer trade with Mexico must live with higher rents, lower vacancy rates, and fewer deals for space than those offered in overbu...
The hits just keep on coming. By which we mean: with the travel biz still reeling from this year's extremely tough sell, packages and promotions from airlines, hotels and resorts just get bigger an...
GREAT-AUNT Felicity is dead. And while you will miss her gingham dresses and tollhouse cookies, the fact she bequeathed you $100,000 makes her passing a little easier to take. Now that her estate h...
In the 1980s, like many other real estate investment trusts, El Paso's Property Trust of America cast its net everywhere from shopping centers to the Holiday Inn at San Francisco's Fisherman's Whar...
WHAT'S the biggest cost problem for American business between now and the year 2000? As you might guess, 63% of the chief executives recently polled by FORTUNE say that runaway medical bills are on...
FROM THE BLACK coal trains sliding like pythons through the Appalachian foothills to double-stack convoys speeding just-in-time cargoes from Chicago to Los Angeles, America's railroads are bound fo...
Sam Zell, 46, known as Sam the Gravedancer back home in Chicago, can kick up his heels again. As chairman of Itel Corp., he made a deal with Michael D. Dingman, 56, chairman of Henley Group. Henley...
At first glance the antitakeover maneuver called leveraged recapitalization might seem rash. A company starts with a healthy balance sheet, piles on debt to make itself an unappetizing target, dist...
In a jittery stock market, investors naturally grow more interested in special situations -- companies likely to restructure or be taken over. Their shares can appreciate no matter what happens to ...
In the past 12 months, as most of the rest of the market has cannonballed forward, railroad stocks have chugged ahead only 3%. Now, security analysts say, they are poised to really move. If the eco...
Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Have them be doctors or lawyers or accountants. In a six-month test, the Venture fund family of Santa Fe (800-545-2098, 505-983-4335 in New Mexi...
-- H. ROSS PEROT, 56 a GM director who reportedly clashes frequently with Chairman Roger Smith (see Managing): ''It takes five years to develop a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II ...
Mason Hawkins was barely out of business school when he and three friends pooled their modest resources in 1975 to form Memphis-based Southeastern Asset Management Inc. The investment advisory firm...
Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp., formed in 1983 by the merger of two rival railroad companies, cannot operate its Southern Pacific system because the Interstate Commerce Commission has not yet appr...
Few would call Robert Kirby, 59, cautious as he roars down the track in one of his Porsche racing cars. But when he's piloting the money management firm of Capital Guardian Trust and directing $10 ...
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