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...thwarted their plans. It's now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and only 1,500 human visitors are allowed per year. But be warned: there's still crime. Frigate birds, the pirates of the skies, steal their fish from red-footed boobies. Catch this high-flying action from the shade of a casuarina tree, relaxed in the knowledge that when you reboard the ship, a tasty five-course meal awaits you. noble-caledonia.co.uk

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shallow Pleasures | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...says, are underequipped, "not well trained, not professional," and "can be loyal to a political party" - rather than to the U.S.-backed national army they belong to. If such sectarian tendencies aren?t curbed soon, the U.S. may find itself watching the Amber Zone turn an even deeper shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Baghdad's Amber Zone | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

Harvard inappropriately transferred a $15 million stake in a Canadian window shade company to a private equity firm run by former Harvard endowment managers, a federal appeals court ruled in an opinion released Monday. The court upheld a previous decision declaring that Harvard violated its agreement with Montreal-based Blinds to Go when it sold the stake to a non-Harvard affiliate without first giving the window shade company the chance to buy back the shares on terms “not less favorable.” Harvard had signed an agreement granting Blinds to Go right of first refusal...

Author: By Cyrus M. Mossavar-rahmani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Court Decides Against Harvard | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...Plant trees and shrubs around your house. They not only provide shade, which lowers energy consumption, but also store carbon. One deciduous tree can remove 50 lbs. of carbon from the atmosphere annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What You Can Do | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

...Texas, the city-owned utility was able to cancel construction of a 500-MW coal-fired power plant--planned to power 50,000 homes--thanks in part to an intensive green building program that offers energy-efficiency audits to all residents and businesses, retrofits schools and installs insulation and shade screens to reduce sunlight in low-income housing. "We're frustrated by the lack of national leadership," says Mayor Will Wynn, an early backer of the Nickels initiative. "This is about the future of the planet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: How to Seize the Initiative | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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