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...summer months regularly see Crimson athletes scattered across the globe; some push through tough workout regimens in Cambridge to prepare for the upcoming season, while others use the time to mend their bodies abroad after a grueling spring...
...local governments across the globe undertake efforts to eradicate this menace, one Boston city councilman hopes that his hometown can stay at the forefront of the environmentally conscious movement...
...draw for tourists is the camaraderie. "You're meeting kindred spirits," says Adam Yates, 25, an advertising sales executive in Los Angeles, who in June went horseback riding and hiking in a national park during his Globe Aware trip to clear trails and teach English in Costa Rica. And companies are eager to tap into the growing number of itinerant Samaritans like Yates. With leading market-research firm Euromonitor International touting this niche's growth potential, particularly among single travelers, Voluntourism.org's newsletter now boasts nearly 1,900 trade subscribers, up from a mere 30 in March 2005. Lonely Planet...
Sarah McCall, a Peace Corps veteran who since March has led six Globe Aware trips in Costa Rica and Peru, recalls how her groups constructed mud-and-brick stoves for 24 Peruvian families in San Pedro de Casta to save fuel and keep harmful smoke out of adobe homes. The project was the brainchild of municipal officials. "We never go in and say that we had this idea, and we want to do this," McCall explains. Instead, she and other leaders check in with the locals to see what the community needs, then dispatch volunteers to do the legwork. Voluntourism...
...post, helped in part by a red-tide disease that destroyed most of Japan's major pearl farms in the 1990s. Hong Kong also enjoys its proximity to China's pearl farms, and the absence of import taxes. Annual trade shows now not only bring buyers from around the globe for China's freshwater jewels, but also auctions for the products of the world's largest saltwater producers, Australia's Paspaley and Tahiti's Robert Wang. Hong Kong is now the world's fourth largest exporter of fine jewelry behind Italy, the U.S. and India, totaling nearly $4 billion...