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...organized adventure holidays in the Americas since 1988, with tours for solo travelers a speciality (even on its regular group departures, over half the participants are traveling alone). Itineraries for singles cover destinations as diverse as Alaska, the Grand Canyon and Ecuador, where hikes, kayak excursions and exploring the Galápagos Islands in a chartered yacht make a welcome alternative to body shots and wet-T-shirt contests. A tour to Belize provides opportunities for trekking, snorkeling, cycling, canoeing and cave exploration. World Outdoors also offers a Machu Picchu experience with stops in Winay Wayna and the lost city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Your Own Way | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

When the bin is full, sensors trigger gears that then compact 180 gal. of waste into 40-lb., easy-to-collect bags. An LED display indicates when the trash is ready to be picked up. Poss has plans for that system to be replaced by a wireless one that will signal when the can is full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JIM POSS: Bringing Sunshine to Trash | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...French fries and doughnuts--and converts it to diesel fuel. It's a well-known technology, championed by the likes of country singer Willie Nelson, but it hadn't been cost competitive until recently. Pacific Biodiesel sells a gallon of its French-fry fuel for $2.84 per gal. to $2.91 per gal.--which was about 60 cheaper than a gallon of regular diesel in Hawaii last month. The company now produces about 4 million gal. annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Talk Trash | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...shoulder through his aviator goggles. Previews show some lovin’ with Jennifer Decker (known primarily for roles on French television). Is this yet another “Pearl Harbor,” where war is eclipsed by the tearful tale of a pretty boy military man and his gal? The bittersweet romance is definitely there, but rather than commandeering the plot, it is one of several distinct elements that subtly blend into the background of an intense and commendable portrayal of World War I combat. The film is based on the true stories of Americans who joined the Lafayette...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flyboys | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...should be not cost or global warming, Grove says, but loss of strategic control. "The problem is wrong," he later elaborates, "so all the logic and discipline lead you in the wrong direction," namely, toward price sensitivity. Hybrid technology looks better when gas is $5 per gal. than when it is $3. But that's beside the point, says Grove. What's at stake is national security and control of our own economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next on His To-Do List: Save the Country | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

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