Morning Links: Milan’s Gelato Ban, a Youth Conservation Corps and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 04.23.09 | 7:34 AM ET
- Move over, Sully: the Canadian pilot who helped commandos re-take his plane from a hijacker in Jamaica says he doesn’t feel like a hero.
- Matador Trips offers up an evocative photo essay from Burma.
- World Hum contributor David Farley has the details on cycling in Central Europe.
- The country’s national parks got a $750 million boost yesterday, including funding for a 15,000-strong Youth Conservation Corps.
- A Papua New Guinea tribe is suing the New Yorker after a Jared Diamond story portrayed them as “rapists, murderers and pig thieves.”
- Ryanair contemplates levying a (not-so-diplomatically-worded) “fat tax” on its most obese passengers; the decision was prompted by a passenger survey.
- Tourists are trickling in to the Washington high school where the teen vampire romance “Twilight” was filmed.
- Say it ain’t so! The public consumption of gelato and other street eats has been banned in Milan and the surrounding region. (Via @benjilanyado)
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