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...SINGLES TRAVEL CONNECTIONS: Australia's northernmost region, dubbed the Top End, is a combination of vast open spaces, rare wildlife and Aboriginal culture. A seven-day jaunt to this striking area can be had via Singles Travel Connections, which (though the name may connote otherwise) is not a dating service but, rather, a travel company that specializes in the solo holidaymaker. Customers are guaranteed single-room accommodation and enjoy a thoughtful mix of individual and group activity. Aboriginal rock-art sites and river-gorge cruises are some of the highlights of the Top End itinerary. See more at singlestravel.com.au...
...SINGLES TRAVEL CONNECTIONS: Australia's northernmost region, dubbed the Top End, is a combination of vast open spaces, rare wildlife and Aboriginal culture. A seven-day jaunt to this striking area can be had via Singles Travel Connections, which (though the name may connote otherwise) is not a dating service but, rather, a travel company that specializes in the solo holidaymaker. Customers are guaranteed single-room accommodation and enjoy a thoughtful mix of individual and group activity. Aboriginal rock-art sites and river-gorge cruises are some of the highlights of the Top End itinerary. See more at singlestravel.com.au
...obligation Tammy Cohen had fulfilled regularly, but never quite so fabulously. For years the 44-year-old New Yorker, like generations of Jewish women before her, had immersed herself monthly in a mikvah, or ritual bath. The act, which marks the seven-day juncture after menstruation when the Orthodox Jewish tradition considers a woman ready to resume marital relations, was indisputably meaningful to Cohen, but some of the facilities she had been using were uninspiring. The pool, she says, looked "like someone had dug a hole and put some plaster in it"; its rabbinically mandated rainwater sometimes bore someone else...
...scholars at the University have come to the defense of the annual February feature. Carter G. Woodson earned a Ph.D in history from Harvard in 1912—becoming the second black to receive a doctorate from the University. Fourteen years later, he founded Negro History Week, selecting a seven-day span in February that included the Feb. 7 birthday of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln. A half-century later, as Woodson’s invention gained popularity, the week evolved into a full month. But last December, Woodson’s brainchild weathered...
...back to basic cable or a bare-bones cell-phone plan, or (if you can't do that) got rid of your landline entirely? Perhaps this summer you could vacation at home instead of spending $2,000 for a week at the beach, or trade two weeks for a seven-day getaway...