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...flowing side of the Arenal Volcano (one of the 10 most active volcanoes in the world), is offering guests up to 20% off stays, plus a welcome dinner at its open-air restaurant. The small 42-room hotel is located on 120-acres of rainforest, populated with toucans and howler monkeys. You can raft or hike along trails that wind past 300-year-old trees, waterfalls and hot springs. The spa includes a heated pool and offers open-air massages and a fireside facial. If the volcano puts on a nighttime lava show, the front desk will even ring your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9 Deals to Get You Face-to-Face with Nature | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...indigenous communities, with help from the Bolivian green group Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) and the American nonprofit the Nature Conservancy (TNC), have fanned out across the Noel Kempff's 4.2 million acres (1.7 million ha), which range from Amazon rain forest to dry savanna. In the footsteps of howler monkeys and endangered black jaguars, they follow mapped plots in the forest, drive stakes into the ground and measure out circles with diameters of 13 ft. (4 m) to 46 ft. (14 m) - and then within that area they chart the diameter of every tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...lipstick-on-a-pig spat what the media would talk about in two days, he replied, "Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive." The media have dutifully fact-checked the McCain campaign's mischaracterizations of Obama's tax plans and its howler that Obama wants to teach kindergartners about sex. But the Obama camp has often seemed flat-footed in the face of nonbeanbag politics, as if it didn't think it had to dignify Republican smears with a response. "Obama wants the campaign to be about issues, because he wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Fire? | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

Alison Goldfrapp has described her band's third album as a "place to take part in fortnightly disco séances." If you like your dance divas nuttier than a fruitcake, she's definitely your gal. What's surprising is that Goldfrapp (who started out as the wordless howler on Tricky's finest albums) and musical partner Will Gregory also have a sublime pop sensibility. Ooh la la is a sticky homage to Norman Greenbaum's Spirit in the Sky and Kylie Minogue's lyric book ("switch me on/ turn me up"). Meanwhile, the synth-rock ballad Number 1 has enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 5 Great New Albums | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...BLOHARDS, that last one was a howler. They couldn?t contain themselves. ?Hoffman! Haw, Haw!! Sheesh. Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the BLOHARDS | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

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