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Food served on resort table (Getty Images / Wayne Eastep)

Rewriting the rules of luxury travel

Ximena N. Beltran Quan Kiu

Migrants deported from the US gesture as they look out the window of the Decapolis Hotel where they are temporarily staying in Panama City, on February 18, 2025. (ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump deportees stuck in limbo at hotel

Tatyana Tandanpolie

This albino sloth was named Goldie by the Sloth Conservation Foundation (Dr. Rebecca Cliffe/The Sloth Conservation Foundation)

Why Costa Rica's sloths may be mutating

Happy senior man reading next to the Aegean sea (Getty Images/Anastasija Vujic)

Longevity advice from the blue zones

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Research Vessel Falkor (too) (Schmidt Ocean Institute)

Treasure trove of "mermaid purses"

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Deep sea octopus moms are suffocating

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet arrives to the airport in Arica, Chile one day after an earthquake on the Pacific coast, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo, Pool) (AP)

Female leaders don't always help women

Merike Blofield, Christina Ewig, Jennifer M. Piscopo - The Conversation

"The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu/George Kraychyk)

"Handmaids" protest Costa Rican election

(Getty Images)

How to improve happiness in America

(AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)

Caitlin Fouratt - The Conversation

Ronald Reagan, Oliver North (AP/Barry Thumma/Lana Harris)

Ted Cruz can't handle truth

(AP/Richard Drew)

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Raphael Satter, JAVIER CORDOBA

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