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...northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset - a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol and the surrounding national park, scheduled this year for June 29. (If you're interested in competing, details can be found at www.ultramongolia.com.) With its mix of deep forests, rugged hills and pristine shores, the scenery at Sunrise to Sunset is as breathtaking as the race itself...
...cacophony of sounds. Once again it won't be the cawing hornbills or chattering silvered leaf monkeys that are responsible, but the three-day Rainforest World Music Festival (rainforestmusic-borneo.com), now in its eighth year and attracting some 20,000 attendees annually to the east Malaysian state. Aside from the spectacular equatorial setting, the event has an impeccable musical pedigree; and this year's bill features 16 acts, from Roma (or gypsy) minstrels to Mongolian throat singers to percussionists from the Ivory Coast. Among the must-see Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel...
...eating mantra into their classes. School lunches now replace unhealthy foods like French fries with vegetables such as beans. Children in the district also dig into a healthy preschool breakfast buffet intended to supplement the breakfast they ate - or sometimes did not eat - at home. The results have been spectacular. The number of obese French kids - children are defined as obese if they are 20% or more above the recommended weight for their height and age - has doubled from 6% to 12% over the past decade. But the increase in obese students from Laventie and neighboring Fleurbaix, where the nutrition...
...that doesn't make them any less ambitious. If you're playing the best-selling Sims games--and 60% of you are women--your goal is to have it all: great house, killer job, hypersmart, multigenerational family. Judge for yourself whether that's more constructive than having the most spectacular car crash...
...tourism, the Chinese town of Zhongdian and the surrounding region were officially renamed Shangri-La. Whether visitors are genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizon, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects - from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want...