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...matter how green you think you are, there's probably one hallowed place where concern for the environment doesn't even enter your mind: the bathroom. It's almost certain that the roll of toilet paper you're using is made not of recycled fiber but from felled trees - often from North America's virgin forests, which are as rare as they are rich in wildlife. "The paper industry is the No. 1 industrial pressure on forests," says Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Using toilet paper made from virgin trees is the paper...
...IRAs," Harvard coach Harry Parker called it.Pacific-10 conference rivals Cal, Stanford, and Washington represented the heavyweight favorites, but defending champion Wisconsin was not to be forgotten either. And of course, the Ancient Eight, led by Harvard and Brown, intended to make its presence felt.The only team to enter all of the regatta’s events, the Crimson’s best showing came in the freshmen division, where its rookies proved undeterred by their cross-country trek, winning a silver medal to give the team its only top-three finish.“A heroic effort, a really...
...Amsterdam, is celebrating its first birthday by giving away a business class ticket per day for the next year. Each month, through May 2010, OpenSkies will pick 30 winners from a different birth month. (Confusingly, in June, people who were born in October are eligible to win.) To enter the lottery, register here by June 19. Or, take advantage of a sure thing: OpenSkies has a sale on Biz class seats through June 30, with $550 one-way fares to Paris and $475 one-ways to Amsterdam...
...generally agreed that the sport has roots in ancient Polynesia, but it didn't really enter the modern mindset until the mid 20th-century, when Waikiki's "beach boys" decided to stand up on their longboards and paddle around with outrigger canoe oars to get a better look at their surfing students, spot far-off waves, take photos for tourists or simply to have something to do on flat days. It wasn't until the late 1990s that the modern explosion began, thanks to big wave surfer and exercise guru Laird Hamilton picking up SUP and publicizing it as simultaneously...
Park Youn Hee, a 27-year-old in Seoul who is about to enter graduate school, remembers well the rush of hope that overcame her nine years ago during the first summit between North and South Korea. As she watched then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korea's paramount leader Kim Jong Il shake hands in Pyongyang on television, Park believed the Cold War conflict on the Korean peninsula might finally come to an end. "We all thought that something was going to change right away," she recalls...