Niger is actually a lovely place to visit, aside from the wrenching poverty.
Papal visit aside, there was some other political news this week.
So put two days of your visit aside and check out our sample itinerary for a taste of everything on offer -- drinking, dancing, live music and even a little bit of history -- and if you can't remember much by the time you're done, then you know you've done it well.
Despite the fact that many Manhattanites (including myself) have never even visited New Jersey aside from driving through it occasionally to get somewhere else, making fun of the stereotypical New Jerseyan and, to quote Woody Allen, the "vast primitive wasteland" that is New Jersey, is as much a part of growing up in New York City as eating bagels or never learning how to drive.
But museums have not yet learned how to measure precisely the quality of the experience they offer -- what their visitors are getting out of their visits aside from gifts in the gift shop and sandwiches in the cafeteria.
For another, the main purpose of their visit, aside from drinking copious amounts of beer and sake, singing karaoke and eating lots of good food, is to have a bath.On a summer's afternoon the cars snake painfully slowly in single file down the coastal road on the Izu peninsula south of Tokyo, where there are many onsen resorts.
All the excitement of a presidential visit aside, the education historian Diane Ravitch said the day's events perhaps concealed a subtle truth: The federal government has "never had a large role in public education," and provides a razor-thin portion of its overall revenues.
All clinic visits (aside from consultant clinics) took place in the community setting, run either by the BFNS or the community continence team (CCT).
I don't think it's giving away too much to say that, our visiting samurai aside, all the characters in "Musashi" are actors of a sort, artists of a hybrid theater of their own making.
