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With vacation breaks approaching, parents looking for a little quality travel time with their children can page through a new crop of travel guides - and some reissued classics - geared toward their special needs. Offering tips for finding the best activities for young and old and for minimizing the inevitable meltdowns, these books make planning a successful trip seem like child's play...
Even the most dedicated video gamers, Web surfers and couch potatoes long for an occasional escape from electronic amusement. For old-fashioned fun, many Americans are going back to family board games--sales were up 18% in 2005--and discovering that there's a fresh new crop every year. Here's a sampling of the latest in living-room play...
...fires set in Vail, Colo., by protesters from Earth Liberation Front were an environmental wake-up call for the ski industry, Auden Schendler, 35, is a triple shot of espresso. Hired the next year by Aspen Skiing Co. (ASC), he has become the most visible of a crop of experts charged with cleaning up the industry's act. Between keeping the lodges toasty and draining the creeks for snowmaking, downhill-skiing companies in the late 1990s were major consumers of natural resources. And ASC, which now operates four mountains, two hotels and 12 restaurants in the Aspen-Snowmass area...
...wasteful energy policies. Podesta said that the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, largely too poor to afford the fossil fuels that power most of the developed world, bore the brunt of the climatic change caused by the burning of oil. These countries suffer famine due to lowered rainfall and crop yields as a result of climate change...
With spring break and summer vacation looming, parents looking for a little quality travel time with their children can page through a new crop of travel guides--and some reissued classics--geared toward their special needs. Offering tips for finding the best activities for young and old and for minimizing the inevitable meltdowns, these books make planning a successful trip seem like child's play...