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This summer, I shall renounce 02138 and return to my home city: Jakarta, Indonesia. The city is exhilarating and alive, damp and disgusting, and I cannot wait to return. It is home to 9.5 million people (officially) and doesn’t come close to anything in North America. Sadly, however, you, my Harvard peer, will not be visiting me anytime soon, not even on the way to study abroad...
...People have been asking that question ever since the era of reform began there in 1980. Yet China has continued to sustain 8%, 9%, 10% growth and even higher. Now they are trying to damp down the growth because they're concerned about overinvestment and inflation. We should never assume things will continue in a straight line. But as long as China and India are experiencing a strong economic growth rate, that translates into higher oil demand...
...years since Richard Babcock first mounted his pickup truck to rescue a colonial barn in distress, snatching a comely example of Scottish extraction, circa 1710, from the jaws of damp rot in Lenox, Mass. After eight months he had tenderly transformed her timbers into a family home in New Marlboro, 18 miles south. Thus was ignited the peculiar passion that, 75 recyclings later, still drives the master builder. "I'm an evangelist, truth to tell," he says. "Some men are called to save souls. I was called to save barns...
...facilitate traveling with yoga gear. "We wanted to address women's growing interest in yoga and its role in a healthy lifestyle," says Alan Krantzler, Tumi's vice president of product management. The company's new Signature collection features an antibacterial-coated mat, with moisture-proof pouches for damp towels and clothing, and several outside pockets for water bottles, cell phones and other accessories...
...many foodies, white truffles might as well be gold. These clumps of fungal fruit grow in the damp crevasses beneath oak trees in only a few places on earth. They are extremely rare and cannot be cultivated. They also stir the hearts of many chefs and can cost a small fortune to purvey. If you want to see for yourself the land of the truffle hunter, then take a plane to the Italian region of Piedmont in the Langhe hills. Alba, a two-hour drive north from Milan, is considered the spiritual city of the treasure, and prime truffle time...