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...DELHI Located 46 km from Delhi, the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is a haven for both resident and migratory birds. The best time to visit is September to March, when you can admire wintering European geese and Siberian cranes. The park offers chances to see more than 100 other species, including teals, kingfishers, cranes and herons. Boating is available on Sultanpur Lake and if you don't feel like making the trek back to town, you'll find plenty of guesthouses nearby. HONG KONG Counted among Hong Kong's best-kept secrets, the Mai Po Marshes attract many wetland birds, including...
...they need this thing. To help give people a feel for the machine, Segway has established a network of 102 independent dealerships operating in 116 locations across the country, many of which try to gin up business by running Segway-powered sightseeing tours. David Floyd, a dealer in Estes Park, Col., says about one tourist in 30 returns to buy a PT from his store. But his main business, he says, comes from the commercial market...
...market and moved into an 84-sq.-ft. cabin on wheels that she built using salvaged cedar, torn-up jeans for insulation and solar cells for power. Then she hitched her tiny house to a biodiesel truck and drove to Olympia, Wash., where friends agreed to let her park in a grassy corner of their backyard. Although Williams, 43, admits that she misses having room for friends to spend the night, she says, "I love my tiny house...
...labs. He has also received about $2.5 million in government research grants, a chunk of which came from the city. Today, Lu's drug-development firm, Shenzhen Chipscreen Biosciences, employs about 45 people working to develop cancer and diabetes treatments in a university-style building at a research park designated for biotech outfits and other advanced start-ups. "If we built this company somewhere else," says Lu, "I don't think we'd have such good luck...
...fights like this, retailers use the exit threat, then stay and expand," says Annette Bernhardt, a labor expert at New York University Law School. One of Target's most successful units is in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, and studies suggest there's $1.3 billion in untapped spending on the city's North Side and West Side alone. That, says Dorian Warren, a politics professor at Columbia University, "is going to be worth far more than the $10 wage costs them...