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...want to know why Denmark is the world's leader in wind power, start with a three-hour car trip from the capital Copenhagen - mind the bicyclists - to the small town of Lem on the far west coast of Jutland. You'll feel it as you cross the 4.2 mile-long (6.8 km) Great Belt Bridge: Denmark's bountiful wind, so fierce even on a calm summer's day that it threatens to shove your car into the waves below. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories the size of aircraft hangars build...
...ancient hills of Lebanon hold little charm for Abdullah Sulhani and his family. Though they live just a bus ride away from some of the most pleasant countryside on the eastern Mediterranean, they don't dare go out for a picnic or family day trip. This is an exaggerated reading of the risks of living in Lebanon - a turbulent country no doubt, but one which, when not a war zone, is the vacation destination of choice for the Arab world. Sulhani, 85, is Palestinian, though, and his family lives in Shatila, an impoverished refugee camp on the edge of Beirut...
...with recruiters, his audition involves playing soccer in Argentina. His potential employers: not Google or Goldman Sachs, but rather, the Seattle Sounders—a Major League Soccer expansion team.Yesterday, Fucito flew to Buenos Aires with the hopes of impressing the MLS club enough over the nine-day training trip to receive a contract.Seattle drafted the Westford, Mass. native with their first selection of the fourth round of the MLS SuperDraft (46th overall) on January 15. Fucito became the fourth Crimson player chosen since the MLS draft’s inception in 1996. He was one of two Ivy League...
Students who regularly travel to the west coast received more options for travel when Virgin America began service at Boston Logan International Airport on Feb. 11. Virgin is offering two round-trip flights daily to San Francisco International Airport and three to Los Angeles International Airport starting at $109 one way, according to the company’s Feb. 11 press release. Kacie M. Rounds ‘11, who often uses United Airlines from Logan to both San Francisco and Los Angeles, said she might use Virgin America’s new service in the future...
...valleys; hanging out with young Israeli soldiers—sounds like a fantasy vacation. If you’re lucky enough to be Jewish, you can have all this for free just by going on a Birthright trip.Taglit-Birthright is the organization which provides 10-day, all-expense paid trips to Israel for Jewish youth ages 18 to 26. This umbrella organization funds trips that are designed and led by more than 20 trip organizers. These trips must all follow the Taglit-Birthright guidelines but differ slightly in certain activities and excursions. While the trips are open to anyone with...