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...down the river. The Fiji Travel Pack inflatable kayak ($120; sevylor.com is nearly 11-ft. long, holds 400 lbs. and comes equipped with a handy storage bag. A cheap alternative to lugging a kayak on your car roof, this one can even fit under the front seat, with your spare change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fitness: Fun In The Sun | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

Gary Pokodner of Annapolis, Md., gets paid to vacation. Pokodner, an electrical engineer, stays at four-star hotels for free, eats steak dinners gratis and goes on casino sprees totally on the house. For his trouble, he makes $20,000 a year in his spare time. How does he do it? Pokodner, 44, is a veteran secret shopper, employed by cruise lines and hotel chains to travel undercover and evaluate their customer service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret Travelers | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...Last Saturday, I showed up in Washington, D.C. at a friend's house with the unopened box. I didn't have any access to my own tools or my rat's nest of spare wires. Nor did I have hours to figure out how everything fit together. It didn't matter; in no time my friends had set up the projector and were aiming it at a white wall where a picture had been hanging. My only chore was to pull the remote control from the box and press the power button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinego D-1000 Instant Theater | 5/25/2005 | See Source »

Headed for the States and thinking of renting a car? May is one of the best months for deals, report the experts at hotwire.com, a discount travel site. That's when the big agencies expand their fleets for summer and have cars to spare. If you're traveling later, you can still save money with these tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rental Tips | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...worries about Hilles’ architecture. If there is a unique building on the College’s campus, it is Hilles. Stepping inside is like opening the cover of a copy of Architectural Digest from 1965; the building has an incredible unity of design, its clean and spare modernist lines extending from the gross structure of the building—evocative, in a way, of traditional Japanese homes—into the details of its original furniture. It is simultaneously massive and weightless, airy but enclosed. Unlike the other major Harvard libraries, its focal point is a beautiful conduit...

Author: By Peter CHARLES Mulcahy, | Title: Hopes for Hilles | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

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