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...realizes “that all my life had been a constant process of obliteration, a turning away from myself and the world,” and undergoes his journey through Europe: travelling from the Czech Republic to England via Germany by train, tracing the route of the Kinder-transport which spirited him from Prague as a five-year old boy in 1939. After learning that his mother was interred at a camp in Terezín in 1942, he visits the town’s Ghetto Museum, and is henceforth tormented by images of “the bricks...
...Phan Don is best reached from Pakse, a midsize city that serves as a transport hub for southern Laos. From Pakse, you can make the 90-minute journey by minibus to the Mekong where longtails wait to ferry passengers across to Don Det and other islands. As for the timing of your visit, well, now would be good. All the disquieting signs of backpacker tourism are appearing - the Internet cafés, cheap pizza parlors and beach bars blasting reggae. There are rumors, too, of 24-hour electricity: great for business, not so good for lovers of sublime escapes. Just...
...full fleet of funerary boats, the symbolic transportation to the afterlife, appears in the exhibition. Each small vessel is about two feet long and carries something different: transport boats have portable cabins in which Djehutynakt could sit; on a fowling boat, one slave steers, while another throws out a net to catch marsh birds...
...only four years. The Japanese company NYK Line launched the M/V Auriga Leader in 2008, the world's first cargo ship partly run on solar power. With 328 solar panels covering its upper deck, the ship produces enough electricity to continuously power 10 homes and can be used to transport 6,400 cars at a time. Though the ship still primarily relies on bunker fuel, it's a step toward the company's goal of zero emissions by 2050. NYK Line already has its next green transport in mind: the Super Eco Ship 2030, a concept ship that uses solar...
...PAWS may not be able to accommodate all of Bolivia's big cats, but Derby and Creamer have pledged to help find homes for them in some of the many comparable facilities around the world. ADI is covering transport costs for the five heading to PAWS, and its promise of continued financial assistance comes as a relief for the Bolivian government. "We simply don't have the resources to cover relocation," says David Kopp of Bolivia's Vice Ministry for Biodiversity...