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...take this giant too lightly. Time your trip to Java's famed volcano for the dry season (June through October), and clear skies should afford stunning views of the surrounding Tengger Caldera. Sunrise watchers should start out at 3 a.m. from the nearby town of Cemoro Lawang, and cross the Lautan Pasir - the sandy plain at the volcano's base. From here, a concrete staircase leads to the summit and (weather permitting) a spectacular dawn. Mount Fuji, Japan, 3,776 m "He who does not climb Mount Fuji once in his life is a fool; he who climbs it twice...
...women furious about the Iraq war and the National Health Service, and his traditionally smooth New Labour p.r. machine has been sounding creaky in the run-up to a general election expected on May 5. Inside the hall, 60 people selected by their Labour M.P.s are waiting to cross- examine...
...major themes of the show, even though neither Picasso nor Bacon was at all religious. In a 1992 interview, Bacon called Picasso's crucifixion scenes "still my favorite of his works." Picasso's oil-on-wood Crucifixion (1930) is a vibrant, surreal retelling of the Calvary story, with cross, nails, lance, weeping women and garments being divided by dice-throwers. Bacon's interpretation, Second Version of Triptych 1944: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, ignores all this action - even the cross - and concentrates instead on three anguished black-and-white figures on an orange-red background...
...then the 6’5 Mormina, standing wide-open in the left circle, struck again, slapping home a pretty, cross-ice feed from teammate Darryl McKinnon and beating Grumet-Morris high and stick-side...
Most of us grew up eating animal products, and chances are great that we rarely, if ever, thought twice about where a chicken nugget or a hot dog came from. If it did happen to cross our mind that our entrée had come from animals, it’s possible we thought they had led a happy life before they were killed painlessly...