Stephen Kingsley had a way of coming up with big and implausible plans. An Englishman living in Kansas City, reportedly experienced in the arts of marine salvage and port development, he masterminded a proposal for a massive revival of the Port of Limon on the Atlantic shore of Costa Rica, which had suffered severe damage in a 1991 earthquake. He established a group of on- and offshore companies under the name Owl Securities and Investments. The project’s aim, as pitched to w

The Urabá region of Colombia is a nearly impenetrable thicket of jungle and rainforest. It constitutes part of the Darian Gap, the only break in the Pan-American Highway and a treacherous passage for north-bound migrants. Remote and politically volatile, the region has served as a haven for left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries alike...

Denny Herzberg was still an infant when his parents fled Nazi Germany in 1940. They had managed the difficult task of securing exit visas for themselves, but the Gestapo agent at the ship’s on-ramp wouldn’t let their baby aboard with only a birth certificate.

If you grew up anywhere on the eastern seaboard in the early 1980s, chances are you remember the television jingle, set to the tune...

If you grew up anywhere on the eastern seaboard in the early 1980s, chances are you remember the television jingle, set to the tune...

The 1970s was a rough decade for American tire manufacturers. Consumer preference was moving away from smooth-riding and flexible...