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Driving snow. Subzero temperatures. Frozen toes. That all might sound pretty good in the dog days of August, but Bill Streever's new book, Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places - part history, part biology, part ode to the natural world - chronicles temperatures few people would ever hope to encounter. Streever, an Anchorage-based biologist and chair of the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel, talked to TIME about polar exploration, how cold spurred the invention of the bicycle and what it feels like to freeze to death. (See pictures of the Arctic...
...switched did little to endear him to many of the Democratic partisans who will vote in the May 18 primary election. "He lost his first and best opportunity to really make people believe that it was a fundamental shift in his ideology," Nevins says. "Instead he made it sound opportunistic." (See the top 10 political defections...
Chef Ooi presides over Cassia, a modern Chinese affair that offers dressy lunches and dinners to complement the all-day dining at the Knolls. Sybaritic pleasures can also be enjoyed at the Auriga spa, where treatments are timed according to the phases of the moon. Yes, that does sound rather silly, but the quality of the massages speaks for itself. See www.capellasingapore.com for more...
...Carnival masks. They eat gelato and large margarita pizzas; they wait an hour in line to see the Doge’s palace and listen to one of the many tuxedoed string quartets in San Marco play Vivaldi (though they prefer it when the quartets strike up The Sound of Music). They say they have seen and done Venice and, in a sense, they would be correct...
...industry argues that the Pebble Mine can be developed without "serious risk to the environment." Have we forgotten the devastating 1989 oil spill in Prince William Sound? Unless the industry can say "no risk," the mine should be shut down. Reynold Knopf, HOLLISTON, MASS...