Word: transformers
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...captive audiences. Yet an increasing number of photography breaks are helping amateur photographers tap their creative juices. Courses last from a weekend to a fortnight, in destinations from Bhutan, where students learn to capture the color of the Jambay Lhakhang Festival, to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing, lighting and photographic content. "It's about putting the photos in the context of the landscape and the people," says Peter Noble, chairman of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Travel Group, who is also a guide with specialist...
...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder to Iceland's volcanic landscape. Experts help to transform snapshot-happy tourists into travel photographers. They advise on lenses, composition, framing, lighting and photographic content. "It's about putting the photos in the context of the landscape and the people," says Peter Noble, chairman of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Travel Group, who is also a guide with specialist agency...
...Then there are methane hydrates. The U.S contains some 30 trillion bbl. worth of those frozen hydrocarbons off the shores of Alaska, the continental coasts and under the Rockies. There's little doubt they too can be extracted economically. If we try, we'll certainly find cheap ways to transform North America's 1 trillion bbl. worth of coal into crude as well. General Patton's Third Army completed its roll across Europe on coal liquefied with German technology...
...Simon ’46, theater reviewer for Bloomberg News, remembers as “a very lively place with all kinds of theatricals.” Although Simon insists it was a very important constituent of cultural life, a loss of capital and actors soon led to its transformation into a repertory film theatre—“at least it was a respectable movie house,” says Simon—featuring an eclectic, and often obscure, mix of foreign, classic, and independent films ever since (see sidebar). Financial troubles arrived in earnest in the nineties...
...most enduring principles: that wage levels should be set by an independent arbitrator. Talk about a stayer! Australia's industrial relations system has been gradually changing since Labor introduced enterprise bargaining in the early '90s. Now, having taken control of the Senate in July, Howard has a chance to transform it. This should be a good time for a popular government that has won four elections since March 1996. The economy is in its 15th year of growth, material living standards are greatly improved and unemployment is at 5%, a 30-year...