No longer do you have to feel left out or uncool for being sober. Photo / Getty Images
No longer do you have to feel left out or uncool for being sober. Photo / Getty Images
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best stories of 2019 from our premium international syndicators, including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Times of London and Harvard Business Review.
Happy New Year. Still suffering from last night's party? Read about the new generation turning awayfrom alcohol. Plus, the secretive billionaire buying the Cayman Islands, why we struggle to lose weight from exercise, the strange case of the death at a Caribbean resort and should we keep travelling?
Anonymous no more: A new generation toasting to sobriety
No longer do you have to feel left out or uncool for being sober. You maybe don't even have to completely stop drinking alcoholic beverages?
Seedlip's distilled non-alcoholic spirits are perfect for those wanting to avoid alcohol. Photo / Supplied
Why is a secretive billionaire buying up the Cayman Islands?
The heir to a foam-cup fortune is believed to own more land than anyone on the storied tax haven of Grand Cayman, just as rising seas threaten to engulf it.
So who is the man widely believed to be the biggest private landholder on the archipelago?
A study that tracked how much people ate and moved after starting to exercise found that many of the people failed to lose or even gained weight while exercising. Photo / Jeenah Moon, New York Times
The Caribbean resort, the investment banker and the dead handyman
A violent death at the Malliouhana resort has rattled its tranquil rhythms and brought unwanted scrutiny, specifically to the door marked 49 and the bathroom within.
The Malliouhana resort hotel, where a maintenance employee died after a vicious brawl with a guest, in Anguilla. Photo / Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo, The New York Times
If seeing the world helps ruin it, should we stay home?
The glaciers are melting, the coral reefs are dying, Miami Beach is slowly going under.
