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...popularity, Thailand's top boxing promoter, Songchai Ratanasuban, has opened the One Songchai Institute of Muay Thai, tel: (66-2) 618 5314, a school attached to the new Bangkok Boxing Stadium. Courses are offered at a range of levels. Curious newcomers can attend ringside lessons (from $45) that involve light sparring with professional boxers. One-day to one-week courses (from $20) are offered to dabblers, while the hard core can take the plunge with rigorous three- to six-week training programs (from $600) that include lessons with Thailand's best coaches, backpacker-style accommodation above the stadium, and home...
...retreat. Massages and body wraps are available at the spa, and yoga classes are offered in a beautiful pavilion overlooking paddy fields and a temple. The resort has its own organic gardens, and the restaurant-housed in a building with a traditional Sumatran peaked roof-is the setting for light, healthy cuisine, with many vegan and vegetarian choices. "We grow most of the food we serve," explains Talucci, who worked in Chicago's restaurant industry for 15 years. "For us, organic is being in touch with nature and yourself...
Finally, a long-term goal of REP is to encourage life-long sustainable habits in Harvard students. A large-scale light-bulb swap is currently underway to have students switch from traditional bulbs to compact fluorescent lights...
...This fall, a Resource Efficiency Program (REP) initiative to encourage students to exchange incandescent bulbs for more environmentally friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) was almost too successful. Students flocked to exchange their gauche bulbs for the trendier CFLs, leaving REP sitting on thousands of the old-fashioned ones. Obviously, a program dedicated to resource efficiency couldn’t hide the stack behind the trash like the rest of us. What...
...figurative light bulb popped above the head of Adams House REP Prabhas Pokharel ’09, whose artistic vision was “inspired by the situation.” REP’s proposal plans to turn the exchanged incandescent bulbs into a human-sized sculptural interpretation of a CFL. For those of you who haven’t exchanged your bulbs yet, think of a gigantic spiral...