Morning Links: Electric Cars, Award-Winning Toilets and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 04.30.09 | 8:33 AM ET
- Ready for an electric-powered road trip? Wired takes the much-hyped Chevy Volt for a test drive.
- The ground-floor men’s bathroom at Nashville’s Hermitage Hotel has been named the best restroom in America.
- The L.A. Times looks back at classic Hollywood’s love affair with North Africa.
- Mercer’s annual Best Places to Live rankings are out; the winning cities are “clean, safe, and a little bit dull,” says the Independent.
- Check out this compelling story from a California journalist who fell in love with an Iraqi reporter while on assignment in Baghdad—and then ran into a lot of red tape.
- Who knew? According to a Cornell research team, the Apple Store is New York City’s fifth-most photographed spot.
- Malaysia’s McCurry restaurant has survived a legal challenge from McDonald’s. The ownership claimed the name stood for “Malaysian Chicken Curry.”
- The Washington Post looks at the impact of swine flu on Mexico’s tourism industry, and in more flu news, an L.A. Times blogger wonders whether Baja California is safer than Los Angeles.
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Ling 04.30.09 | 10:03 AM ET
That’s a nice story about the LAT reporter. Shows that Iraq is not just full of exploding bombs and bad guys.