**LAS VEGAS WEATHER: WHERE THE WORLD COMES TO MELT** *By our correspondent who has filed stories from actual deserts that were more hospitable* Las Vegas—that glittering monument to human optimism in Nevada’s Mojave Desert—has been experiencing weather that makes one wonder if the city finally negotiated an exclusive deal with the sun. While temperatures flirt…
Sky vs Fever: The Planet’s Newest Past-Time, Sponsored by Everyone’s Panic By Our Man in the Departures Lounge The match-up began quietly enough—one of those slow-motion grudge fights that only epidemiologists and airline CEOs bother to track. On one side: the literal sky, 510 million square kilometres of once-pristine nothing now hosting 45,000 commercial flights…
Victoria Station: The World’s Most Overqualified Waiting Room By Our London Correspondent, nursing a tepid flat white and existential dread London, UK – Somewhere beneath the ornamental pigeons and the low, grey sky that passes for weather here, Victoria Station yawns open like a bored Leviathan. Every minute, 2,000 fresh pilgrims—armed with wheelie bags, misplaced…
