World’s Priciest Home Sold

Russian buys world’s priciest home
 

La Leopolda: The sumptuous villa on the Cote d’Azur is set on eight hectares at Villefranche-sur-Mer, near Nice. Photo: AFP

The latest French Riviera purchase puts previous deals in the shade, reports Lizzy Davies in Paris.
FROM the beaches of Cannes to the hills of Monaco, it is the mystery enthralling the [...]

The Legend of Goat Island South Carolina

By Maria Zone
There is a tiny barrier island, only 200 yards off the Isle of Palms, where legend still lingers. It is called Goat Island. In the early ’30s, a man and his wife lived there in self-exile without electricity or water, choosing to turn their backs on civilization forever. Goat Island remains a place [...]

A Good Collection of Very Usable Software (and free to boot)

SoftwareFor.org: Home of Software for Starving Students
Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone). We’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one disc for OS X, one for Windows), including a full-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities [...]