Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pennant race heats up, the Harvard baseball team takes a break from its Ivy League rivals and travels to Fenway Park this morning to meet its crosstown foes in the Beanpot...
...three different groups represented three distinct approaches for addressing local ecological and social issues. One group designed a park for ecotourism and habitat preservation. The second clustered lakefront development along one lake, Lake Josephine, and encouraged development of housing in converted ranchlands. The remaining group took an integrated approach towards Lake Placid as an ecological community, planning multi-income housing and recreational areas, converting agricultural land uses and altering lake-use patterns...
...mind when he designed the 30-room Explora hotel five years ago. "We wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
Explora prices are not cheap. At the hotel in Torres del Paine, a double room for four nights can cost up to $1,624, though that includes meals and a choice of five daily guided outings--by car, foot, mountain bike, boat or horse. The park is a 600,000-acre, UNESCO-declared biosphere where flamingos, black swans, llamas and condors thrive amid emerald lakes, glaciers, fjords and floating icebergs. At day's end guests can relax at the health spa with a Thai massage or a dip in the outdoor Jacuzzi. At mealtime they gaze out at the Salto...
...insistence, the Explora blends in with its surroundings. Hotel waste is treated with a complex system of filters, ultraviolet light and two kinds of beneficial bacteria so the sewage is crystalline before it enters Lake Pehoe. The staff burns dead wood purchased outside the park, places generators in soundproof sheds to prevent noise pollution, and uses some solar power...