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...thousands of icebergs that have broken free from Antarctica in recent years. These frigid, starkly beautiful mountains of floating ice turn out to be bubbling hot spots of biological activity. And in theory, at least, they could help counteract the buildup of greenhouse gases that are heating the planet...
...eager to tap into the growing number of itinerant Samaritans like Yates. With leading market-research firm Euromonitor International touting this niche's growth potential, particularly among single travelers, Voluntourism.org's newsletter now boasts nearly 1,900 trade subscribers, up from a mere 30 in March 2005. Lonely Planet published its first volunteer-travel guidebook in June--which was good timing, considering that a recent Travelocity poll found that almost twice as many vacationers (11%) planned to volunteer this year...
...anti-spacesuit spacesuit is made of an elastic, skintight material, lightweight enough to allow astronauts to walk, run or even scale mountains on a moon or planet's surface - acts that are physically impossible using NASA's current Tin Man-like designs. The form-fitting style of the new suit doesn't just make for a beguiling photo op; it also keeps astronauts alive by creating what scientists call mechanical counter pressure, which balances out the vacuum pull of space. The spacesuits worn today use gas pressurization - they create a small Earth-like atmosphere inside the suit, which exerts...
...magical standards - "Accio Hagrid" indeed! The house-elves are strangely overpowered too: they can, for example, apparate in and out of Hogwarts, a fact that Rowling notes but doesn't really explain. With Dobby freed from his servitude to wizardkind, one wonders why he isn't running the planet...
Which brings us back to our story: in the second half of the 1990s, the U.S. had about the only healthy big economy on the planet. Especially after the Asian currency crises of 1997, which brought on a deep regional depression, there just wasn't much demand for money outside the U.S. There also wasn't much demand for that other crucial economic fuel--fuel. As a result, the long-term rates set by the market stayed low, and falling prices of oil and other commodities allowed the Fed to keep short-term rates down even as the U.S. economy...