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...these are animals that suffer for their families. They're obliged to trek some 70 miles to their breeding ground (where the ice is thick enough to support the enormous colony). There they all approach starvation during the dark, 80º-below-zero winter, the father protecting the egg while the mother returns to the ocean for food, which she stores in her belly and disgorges to the hatched chick. She then takes over the baby sitting while the father makes the same journey...
...precarious 90-km track, followed by several hours of trekking, before you reach the area where the Dulong live. That means only the most committed travelers will likely make the journey. If you want to spice up the adventure farther, local tour operators offer alternative routes. The seven-day trek organized by Haiwei Trails, tel: (86-887) 828 9239, starts on the banks of the Mekong River, before circumnavigating the sacred Meili mountain and following old horse trails into Dulong territory. Once you arrive, one of the tribe's remaining tattooed women will welcome you with a steaming...
Just a month ago, Harvard students leaving Boston for the summer had only one way to trek to the airport on public transportation: take the Red Line inbound from Harvard, switch to the Green Line eastbound at Park Street, switch to the Blue Line outbound at Government Center, ride that train to the Airport stop, and then take a free shuttle bus to the correct terminal...
Looking at how Lincoln really lived isn't always easy, but it has the chance of reinvigorating our relationship to a man that is otherwise deeply threatened by so much iconography. More than 30 years ago, a typical illustration of Lincoln in popular culture was his appearance on Star Trek, in which he joined the crew members of the U.S.S. Enterprise in their war of good against evil. Today, a typical portrait is the wickedly brilliant cartoon Hard Drinkin' Lincoln, on the website icebox.com which makes the 16th President a cross between Homer Simpson and Kenny on South Park...
...Tiya eventually escaped to the comparative safety of Loi Tai Leng. His wife is in prison, so his two children are cared for by grandparents. He hasn't seen them for six years, and unless they make the perilous trek to Loi Tai Leng, he never will. He cannot safely return to his own village. "The Burmese soldiers will recognize me. I'll be killed for sure." Now remarried, he has two more children, and his new wife is heavily pregnant with a third...