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...Tangalooma is mostly known for the bottle-nosed dolphins that can be hand-fed along the resort's shoreline each evening. But for a real encounter with the wild, guests climb onto boards made of waxed Masonite or wood fiber and throw themselves off the summit of one of the nearby 90-meter sand dunes. They call it "sand tobogganing...
Whether or not the Crimson can climb any further up the ladder remains to be seen, as Harvard lost to No. 3-seeded St. Francis last weekend...
...most exhilarating thrill rides this side of the Matterhorn - and there's not a snowflake in sight. Tangalooma is mostly known for the bottle-nosed dolphins that can be hand-fed along the resort's shoreline each evening. But for a real encounter with the wild, guests climb onto boards made of waxed Masonite or wood fiber and throw themselves off the summit of one of the nearby 90-m sand dunes. They call it "sand tobogganing." The resort supplies the board, and apart from a good pair of sunglasses, nothing is required except strong nerves...
...proposal that would have reduced Spain's voting weight. Zapatero embraced a similar proposal in June, and has vowed to hold one of Europe's first national referendums on the constitution in February. Spain's strong popular sentiment for the E.U., which has contributed massively to the country's climb to prosperity over the last two decades, makes a positive result all but assured. Even the Popular Party is counselling a yes vote. Yet Spain's relations with the Continent's two biggest states might not always be so smooth as during last week's get-together. Germany...
...designer William Dudley (The Breath of Life, The Coast of Utopia) use ultrasophisticated animated projections on three white semicircular screens. They create a cinematic labyrinth, where the screens spin and whirl, with intricate backdrops that cross-cut, dissolve and move with the characters. When a character is required to climb the stairs to the attic, she only has to walk on one spot while the 'house' sweeps down past her - and when she reaches the attic, one screen shows its cluttered interior, while two others depict a vista of roofs and chimneys outside. It's frenetic, it's dizzying...