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...Like bobsledding but can't stand the cold? Then head down under. The Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort, tel: (617) 3268 6333, on Moreton Island, off the coast of Brisbane, Australia, is the setting for one of the most exhilarating thrill rides this side of the Matterhorn-and there's not a snowflake in sight...
...projects because of confusion over industry regulations as Jakarta grants more power to local governments. In one case, three years of haggling between Exxon-Mobil and Indonesian oil company Pertamina, now in the process of being privatized, has stalled the development of the massive Cepu oil field on the island of Java. The negotiations were dealt a serious blow in August, when Exxon-Mobil says it was informed by Pertamina that its contract to operate the field, set to end in 2010, would not be continued. Exxon-Mobil says it will hold off on a $2.6 billion investment to develop...
...team, for its part, credits that rejuvenation in large part to the loud support exhibited by Harvard’s women’s ice hockey team, which made the trek to Rhode Island to help negate the hostile Bears fans on Brown’s Warner Roof...
...weather turned summery. Rachel Whyte, a co-proprietor of and the chef at the Glenmachrie Country Guest House, fed me some surprisingly mild-tasting smoked kippers, which, had it not been morning, would have paired well with a Bowmore 17year-old. Bowmore, on the north part of the island, is one of two remaining distilleries (Laphroaig, the other) still peat smoking their barley in house. Try to time your visit to when the fires are cranked. The aroma of baking bread, along with the barley smoke, is a sensory explosion...
...lost my heart to a single-malt whisky from Islay. That Laphroaig 10-year-old was a potent dram that smelled like a smokehouse and slid down with elegant fire, and it's from one of the seven whisky distilleries that dot this small and remote western Scottish island...