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...website's sheer ambition is. Launched in the teeth of the recession and a media apocalypse that has not spared environment-themed properties - the paper edition of the eco-friendly magazine Plenty folded on Jan. 5 - MNN aims to be nothing less than a one-stop shop, a "green CNN" for the online audience. "Our product is going to be better than anything out there," says Joel Babbit, MNN's president. "We're not just another site." (See the 50 best websites...
...distinguish dessert from the rest of the meal, or maybe it's because beef-flavored birthday cake tends to make kids cry. But suddenly menus everywhere have deemed bacon an acceptable crossover. The landmark Brown Hotel in Louisville, Ky., does a bacon baklava. More, a cupcake shop in Chicago, sells three bacon flavors. Animal in Los Angeles serves a deeply satisfying bacon chocolate crunch bar. At New York City's Dovetail, the bread pudding with bacon brittle is so popular it can't be rotated off the menu...
...play. Just when this most technical of sciences starts to become impossibly arcane, it goes goofy on you, as it did last year with the announcement that physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, had developed a tiny working model of an invisibility cloak. This week, the physics magic shop announced yet another wonder: levitation. Really...
...global economy, but I cheer up every time I drive by the pump ($1.78 a gallon!) in my new gas-sipping subcompact. Like some of my neighbors, I downsized last spring after years of driving a relative gas gulper. Small businesses nearby - the outfitter's store, the little cheesecake shop, the coffeehouse, even the independent bookstore - are still open. Word has it that one neighbor finally found a new job and another started a new career. Even die-hard Republicans have high hopes for the new President. And 2010 - when the worst may be over, I gather - is only...
...chilly Saturday in October, Mark Hitchcock and nine friends from New Zealand kick off a four-day bachelor party in Amsterdam with a bit of sightseeing. Rather than admiring the canals on a boat tour or sampling the wares at a coffee shop, however, the men opt for something more active - they mount a 17-ft.-long (5 m) bicycle decked out with a bar and karaoke machine. It takes just 10 minutes (and a couple of beers) before they remove their shirts, attracting the attention of female tourists. "How do we get on?" asks one young American woman...