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...espresso on a piazza or sunning yourself on a crowded beach? Audacious travelers can now explore rougher, wilder destinations as tour operators cater to an increasingly adventurous clientele. Here are three trips guaranteed to satisfy even the most jaded thrill-seeker. If you don't mind slogging through thick mud and dense forest, a gorilla-spotting holiday in Rwanda might appeal. Now that relative political stability has returned to the country, it's once again possible to observe mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Following in researcher Dian Fossey's footsteps, visitors can catch a rare glimpse of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards From the Edge | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...presence of death in Nthandire has been overwhelming in recent years. The grandmothers whom we meet are guardians for their orphaned grandchildren. The margin of survival is extraordinarily narrow; sometimes it closes entirely. One woman we meet in front of her mud hut has 15 orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Poverty | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

Ronan told the story of Aqbal, a child who was found floating on a board in the middle of the ocean by fishermen two days after the tsunami. He had swallowed mud, was suffering from pneumonia, and had lost both parents...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MGH Team Helps With Tsunami Relief Effort | 3/2/2005 | See Source »

...full of free performances. Longy, a hop and a skip from Cambridge Common, is closer to the Yard than even the Quad. MIT also has a very eclectic concert calendar, though its hall, Kresge Auditorium, may turn off visitors with its resemblance to a giant football stuck in the mud...

Author: By Madeleine J. Baverstam and Jennifer D. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Classical Music for Dummies: Harvard Style | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Despite the mud being thrown on their names, the profs of these Core courses have not risen up in arms. Most declined to comment, while others vaguely remembered having heard about the article but not having read...

Author: By Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Core Courses Proven Idiotic, Irrelevant for 9,572nd Time | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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