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...Heritage sites: the Valley of Flowers, which erupts every spring into a carpet of colorful blooms, and Nanda Devi, the second highest peak in the Indian Himalayas. For environmental reasons, the peak has been off limits to climbers since the early 1980s, but day treks can be made to lower regions of the sanctuary...
...feel it the worst. Úlfar Steindórsson, CEO of Toyota Iceland, says that the depreciated krona raised the price of imported cars by 25% in just a matter of weeks, bringing his booming sales to a standstill. He now predicts year-on-year revenues will end 30% lower. But Steindórsson doesn't blame the government or Iceland's banks. "The crisis didn't start in Iceland - it started in the U.S.," he says. As he sees it, the international dimension of the credit crunch means that Iceland's hands are essentially tied. "We can't move...
...that gave rise to NASA and NIH, that we create a National Institutes of Sustainable Technology. A return to America's can-do attitude of the 1960s would help make the U.S. a winner in countless ways. We would help put a brake on our contribution to climate change, lower America's dependence on the tumultuous Middle East and reclaim our competitive edge in science, technology and the global economy...
McGinley, 30, grew up in New Jersey, spent his teen years going slightly wild in Manhattan and in his early 20s settled on the arty Lower East Side. The fashion magazines of the time had a singular image of his peer group, and it was not a good one: hollow-cheeked and sallow-skinned with the lank look of a hungry junkie. That wasn't McGinley's crowd--healthy, happily sexual, not above living in the extreme fast lane sometimes but otherwise...
...McCain regularly takes four medications: aspirin to prevent blood clots; Hydrochlorothiazide, for kidney stone prevention; Amiloride, to preserve potassium in the blood stream; and Simvastatin to lower his cholesterol. He also sometimes takes Ambien CR to help him sleep and Zyrtec, an antihistamine for nasal allergies...