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...breakable in a backpack. Glowing Gadget When it's time to answer nature's call in the dark of night, mini-lights come in handy. Guyot Designs' Firefly, $22, converts a water bottle into a flashlight whose brightness can be adjusted for use as a night-light or reading lamp. Don't Bug Me Insect repellents can be sticky or stinky. How about a shirt that keeps pesky pests away? Ex Officio's Buzz Off shirts, $22 and up, are made with permethrin, the same insecticide used in long-lasting antimalaria bed nets. Titan Tent Sales of big car-camping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfy Camping | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

BEIJING—Three objects sit on my desk: a Chinese-English dictionary, a lamp, and my computer. For anyone who knows me, this is an anomaly in the extreme. I have an innate incapability to have a clean desk; one memorable winter, I lost my ID twice under the stacks of papers and books that inevitably cover it by mid-semester. Yet it’s almost halfway through the summer semester here at Beijing Language and Culture University, and my tabletop remains freakishly clean. Ostensibly, my monkish existence has a single purpose: learn Mandarin. To this...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, | Title: Flying a Crimson Flag | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

Glowing Gadget When it's time to answer nature's call in the dark of night, mini-lights come in handy. Guyot Designs' Firefly, $22, converts a water bottle into a flashlight whose brightness can be adjusted for use as a night-light or reading lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comfy Camping | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

...scent of ylang-ylang floats on the breeze, Worcester points out a dark swath of forest where he once lived on the banks of a tributary in a shack with no walls and, until a neighbor ran an extension cord to his place to power a lamp, no electricity. "I used to fish from my lounge room," he says wistfully. Such accommodation might sound sweet to some, but if taking eco-holidays is about being immersed in natural beauty with some indulgence along the way, the Daintree lodge hideaway is a happy choice. Green ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eco-Friendly Resorts: Into the Woods | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...they get so excited. Instead of writing these trite papers or looking at a microscope, they see it in some beautiful form. It’s almost this mirror of their inspiration back at them.”Much of his work features round, globular shapes that evoke lava lamp goo given a Salvador Dalí treatment—a look and feel that Knep describes as “organic.” He often mimics the shapes of cell organelles or other microscopic biological structures, as in “Drift”—a series...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finding Beauty in Biology | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

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