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...Ponta dos Ganchos also makes a good base for trying other activities the area is famous for. Chug out to an oyster farm with a local fisherman to taste oysters scooped straight from the sea. Hike to hidden waterfalls. Sip potent caipirinhas made with locally brewed cachaç a. Or catch a speedboat to the ancient fort on Anhatomirim Island, where the Portuguese fought both Spaniards and pirates. Nature lovers should visit Garopaba Bay, south of Florianópolis, to spot whales migrating to warmer waters between June and November. It seems even the ocean-going whale finds the Emerald...
...potential installation proposals on the grounds of supposed feasibility concerns. The administration has said that cable will be one of the improvements to be contemplated in the forthcoming house-by-house renovation effort. This may sound like a satisfactory alternative—and a reasonable justification for refusing to farm out the job to a lone entrepreneur—until one considers the meaning of “forthcoming” in this context. Late last year, Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam said of the general timeline for renovations, “You folks won?...
...compensation for past wrongs, and few Australians doubt that Aborigines need more investment in health and education. But for now, many are satisfied. Murray Harrison, 70, was a member of the stolen generation. One of 13 siblings, he was found in the care of his aunt, an itinerant farm worker, and put in an orphanage at age 10. He has never forgotten his first night there. "I'd never been locked in before," he says. "For years I used to wake at night and hear that door slamming. This to me is closure." With Rudd's simple "sorry," Harrison...
...astute observers of modern China, says that the country is cramming three different eras of U.S. history into one. In U.S. terms, the postwar prosperity that fueled the flight to the suburbs is happening at the same time as the 19th century Industrial Revolution that lured people from the farm to the cities, and also as Progressive Era efforts to rein in the worst abuses of capitalism take shape. I asked Guo if he agreed. He nodded, but added a caveat: "What's different about China is the sheer scale of things. The simple fact is there are still...
...suffice to say, doesn't believe you can keep them down on the farm, and neither does anyone else. So people will continue to pour into Shanghai - and other major cities - and a good portion of the middle class will escape to the suburbs as the cities grow ever more crowded. So no, Guo added, he doesn't lose sleep over the prospect of real estate booms and busts here. "And neither," he added, smiling broadly, "should...