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...grew up skiing in the New England area and not being able to afford to go to the real mountains up North,” says Green. “Not exactly real mountain skiing. And in the time periods when they were only open Friday to Sunday, and you were on that last run, and you hear the lift stop, you always had that scary thought that you were stuck...
...resistant, and it traps more heat than fiberglass insulation. It's also stronger, pound for pound, than concrete. In December, Ross completed what is believed to be the first structure made entirely of mushroom. (Sorry, the homes in the fictional Smurf village don't count.) The 500 bricks he grew at Far West Fungi were so sturdy that he destroyed many a metal file and saw blade in shaping the 'shrooms into an archway 6 ft. (1.8 m) high and 6 ft. wide. Dubbed Mycotectural Alpha, it is currently on display at a gallery in Germany...
Electronic donations have been increasing steadily over the past decade. While old-fashioned donations have declined recently due to the recession, online giving actually grew in 2009. One online charity portal, Network for Good, reported that the number of donations nearly doubled last year, and the dollar value of donations increased by 42 percent. However, trends in online giving, including cutting-edge methods like text-message donations, vary markedly from traditional non-profit donations, and their growing importance will have a significant effect on the quantity and character of charity worldwide, and not necessarily a positive...
Coming out of the locker room, the squad’s philosophy grew more conservative. Looking to protect its lead—which reached 14 with 12 minutes to play—Princeton did its best to make the most of every possession, content to hold the ball into the late seconds of the shot clock...
...Syria, the return of an American ambassador is a much desired signal that the U.S. needs Syria to help stabilize Iraq, keep the peace in Lebanon and solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syrians like to think of their country as the crossroads of the Middle East; they grew worried when Damascus simply fell off the itinerary of most major world players. More worrying is the country's dismal neo-Soviet-style economy, which needs reform and foreign investment if it is to create enough jobs for the country's young, growing and restless population...