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...husband Ken Cordell, 59, of Athens, Ga., have already bought plots in Ramsey Creek Preserve, a 33-acre South Carolina cemetery dedicated to environmentally friendly burials. They shudder at the thought of going the "conventional route"--being embalmed and then buried in a fancy casket. "Just dig a hole, put me in it, then cover me back up," says McDonald. Come that day, they plan to be buried dressed in jeans and T shirts and wrapped in cotton shrouds. Says Cordell, an environmental scientist: "I figure I'll just fertilize a tree...
...magnitude of Antarctica?it's more than one-and-a-half times larger than Australia?makes regulating tourism there almost impossible. "We do this all on the honor system," said Bill, a crew member with a face nicely crisped by the omnipresent UV (Antarctica lies directly beneath the ozone hole). "No one monitors us, so it's up to us to do this kind of tourism safely and responsibly...
...Passage makes even the saltiest sailor turn green. Seasick pills are therefore mandatory. Along the coast, Antarctic summers might feel warmer than some Northern Hemisphere winters, but serious cold-weather clothing, like skiwear, is still required. Other essential items to bring with you include plenty of sunscreen (the ozone hole over the continent makes UV radiation there extremely strong) and more film than you think you'll ever need...
That was the last time the maid saw Saddam. The next day Migdal took her back to the farmhouse in Tikrit to hole up with his wife, three daughters and several bodyguards. On April 8, a day after American forces bombed a site in Baghdad hoping to kill Saddam, the Iraqi leader called the farmhouse. He was looking for guards to help launch surface-to-surface missiles. Later that day, Migdal returned from an outing and began sobbing. "Baghdad is falling!" he cried out. "The army is deserting." U.S. forces seized the capital on April 9 as Saddam statues toppled...
...Peter Chung, creator of the ground-breaking if perplexing MTV anim? Aeon Flux. Chung grasps the creepy biomechanics at the heart of the Matrix world. His machines and humans alike are faintly insectoid and fatally interdependent on each other. Remember how Morpheus talks about going "down the rabbit hole"? Well, Matriculated pulls you there and then some. Chung takes the concept of humans living in a computer-generated world and turns it on its head, plugging a machine into a kaleidoscopic human dreamworld. The result is electric?Kool-Aid brain candy, with a twist of unexpected pathos...