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...demand as porters and endearing travel mates, especially for kids. More than 200 donkey agents now specialize in hikes 'n' hires. The affectionate quadrupeds, says Régine Delhome Boudreau of France's national donkey trekking organizers' association (FNAR), "give rhythm and soul to your walking. They facilitate contact and conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Legs Good | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...hard-ass? If you're going to fire someone, why is it easier to fire them with the push of a button than a face-to-face conversation? New research out of Princeton suggests that we actually process moral decisions in a different region of our brain when human contact is eliminated. If we have to confront the person, we process a moral decision in the parts of our brain that govern emotional empathy and social intelligence. If we only have to push a button, we process the decision near our temples, where we do our logical processing. We become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad News Comes in Small Bytes | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

...country fairs. "We wanted to see the country and find an affordable place to buy property and settle down," O'Brien says. "Instead of drawing on our savings, we thought it would be a way of paying our own way." The hawker's life has brought them in contact with all kinds of people, she adds. Some of the least well-off have turned out to be the happiest, proudest and most resilient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean Living | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...With loving and laughing, And quipping and quaffing, We're happy as happy can be. "It's like a family," says Oberg, who joined the choir two years ago. "You're dealing with people you'd never normally have contact with, and you grow really fond of them. I can see why some people have been in the choir for years and years. You work together to achieve something, and then you get that burst of applause and you feel enormous pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singing for Love | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...consult a friendly resident and get a pointer to the location. Back on the peninsula, we walk through tangled, prickly foliage and over jagged rocks. Laden with three cameras, Parker forges ahead alone, the din of Woodside's LNG plant and the whistling wind blocking out attempts at voice contact between us. Parker uses the factory's fiery emission stack to get his bearings until, half veiled in shadow a few meters above the valley floor, he finds what he's looking for: the "climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Climbing Men | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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