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...create one." Clearly, the 34-year-old doesn't let herself get slowed down by what other people might consider obstacles. So it was only natural that she would take the new Braille system to the place where it was most needed: Tibet. Although widely regarded as a mountain paradise, Tibet has twice as much blindness per capita as the global average, due to high altitude and sun exposure. (The proportion of sightless Tibetans is 1 in 70.) Treatment there has long been hampered by the belief that blindness is a punishment for misdeeds in a previous life...
...green space, Blue Hills provides a green oasis just a few minutes outside of Boston. The views from most of the summits provide great views of the ocean, Boston and its suburbs, especially on top of Great Blue Hill. The area offers lots of other outdoor activities, including mountain biking, rock climbing and a rudimentary form of skiing...
That is no longer the case, Carrier said. Today, travelers have hundreds of titles to wade through, from guides that specialize in British wit to books that target mountain bikers...
...these reasons, it makes sense to dream of a world that is far, far less dependent on oil than it is now. Winning the Oil Endgame: American Innovation for Profits, Jobs and Security, written by a team led by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute in Snowmass, Colo., is one of the best analyses of energy policy yet produced. Lovins, who has been preaching the need for fuel efficiency for some 30 years, thinks big. His aim is to promote a set of policies that over the next two decades would save half the oil the U.S. uses, before...
...graduate student reported to CPD that a man on a mountain bike inappropriately grabbed her at about 8:30 p.m. while she was walking on Holyoke Street near 24 Mt. Auburn Street...