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...living timorese would know the country's rugged cordillera better than Manuel Mendon?a, 38. Known as kokorek (young fowl), he was a teenage member of the clandestine anti-Indonesian resistance movement and then a sub-district commander of the Falintil guerillas, maintaining supply lines and mobilizing support in the mountains outside the capital. The wiry father of six is recuperating at his half-built concrete-block home on Dili's fringe. A decade of camping out in the bush, not to mention torture and imprisonment, has prematurely aged Mendon?a, leaving him with tropical diseases, a damaged spine, and bones that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands Off My Petroleum! | 5/4/2004 | See Source »

...Cordillera Blanca, Peru (footlooseadventure.co.uk) Action-weary tourists can let their llamas do the walking-4,500 m up in the Andes, that is-while funding deserving local projects through Footloose Adventure Travel. The travel agency also accepts donations for Climate Care Trust, an organization that plants carbon-busting trees for every mile you've flown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecotourism Without Tears | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

...these places that let you feel good while doing some good. SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND (escapeadv.com) Proof that the best (indigenous) insights come in small packages, this mountain-biking operator takes select off-road groups through eye-popping Tolkien terrain, using local Kiwi resources as much as possible. CORDILLERA BLANCA, PERU (footlooseadventure.co.uk) Action-weary tourists can let their llamas do the walking - 4,500 m up in the Andes, that is - while funding deserving local projects through Footloose Adventure Travel. The travel agency also accepts donations for Climate Care Trust, an organization that plants carbon-busting trees for every mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecotourism Without Tears | 2/15/2004 | See Source »

This is an indictment that he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old college student and employee of the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera in Edwards, Colo., while he was staying there for knee surgery. The complaint, brought by Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert, reads that Bryant "unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly inflicted sexual intrusion or sexual penetration on" his accuser, whose name was withheld by police and the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say It Ain't So, Kobe | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...moments, she appears to be sleeping, ignoring the helicopter's incessant buzz and shutting her eyes to the beauty of the Cordillera Mountains below. She has taken off her reading glasses and put away the newspapers. Coup rumors, strife in the southern island of Mindanao, the landing of hundreds of American soldiers that her critics are calling an invasion?these are subjects she now deals with every day. She knows that beneath the daily cacophony assailing her?the sneers, the ingratiation, the pleading and cajoling, and the doubts, always the doubts?are the same questions that have haunted her presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power and Gloria | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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