Taxiride

Outdoor adventurers keep lists of life's places to explore: On one unseasonably warm November day, Dyckman Street and 10th Avenue in Manhattan became one such destination, at least for nine newcomers to New York City. As cars roared behind them, the nine employees of REI, which was founded in Seattle in 1938 and now is based in Kent, were learning how to adapt their wilderness skills to the big city — in this case, starting at an illegal dumping ground recently converted into a park with paths, marshes and some not-so-outdoorsy litter. Read More

Any taxi-riding, bodega-shopping, laundromat-using New Yorker knows that immigrants own many of the businesses that make New York tick. Read More

SHANGHAI , Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- When Touchmedia launched its "Mr. and Miss WOW" white-collar health campaign on June 1 under the nationwide initiative of the General Administration of Sports of China (GASC) 3510 Health for All , it was to promote health amongst affluent white collar taxi-riders in Beijing , Shanghai , Guangzhou and Shenzhen . Read More