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...Smith, an avid biker, leads 120 or so riders on the Enduro India tour, a two-week, 2,500-km motorcycle trek from Goa to Cochin via the magnificent Western Ghat mountains. To join in, you need at least $6,000 in private sponsorship (plus $35 a day for fuel and fun) and a motorcycle license. What you get is the chance to ride a new, locally made Royal Enfield Bullet along unmapped rural Indian roads and see places like tiger reserves that are normally off-limits. The going can be tough, and some nights you sleep under canvas...
...Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning; $12.98 At 25, Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, is expert at turning his disenchantment into fuel. He's not wild about himself or his country at the moment. But instead of sounding desperate or polemical, the best of these quiet, well-observed songs do something far tougher-create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility...
...Sunday, where leader of the Australia First Party, John Moffitt, handed out pamphlets declaring, “This is a great day. Australia is now seeing what the policies of the last 30 years are reaping.” Such attitudes are troublingly prevalent in Australia and added fuel to the weekend’s events...
...terminal stores various grades of petroleum-based fuel for cars and airplanes, and is used by a variety of oil companies. It normally loads about 400 tanker trunks a day, and has pipelines connecting to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Though the terminal is the country?s fifth largest, no serious disruption to gasoline supplies is expected as emergency plans to draw from other depots kick in. Fire chiefs said they had extinguished a fire at a nearby warehouse caused by the explosion, but were waiting to assemble enough equipment and foam from nearby districts before tackling the main blaze-which...
...band raced into final number “Mountain Man,” only stopping as the house lights went up. As I headed out to ice my ear drums, the crowd remained, trying to coax out just a little more of that preciously crude fossil fuel...