Carry On Camping (Times Online)
As every Scout must surely know, there is no fun like camping. Songs around the bonfire, toasted marshmallows and the freedom of packing up and moving on are exhilarations beyond compare. Who, then, can blame Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for wanting to pitch his own tent on his state visit to France? us.rd.yahoo.com
Camping World Awards 2007 Accessory and Aftermarket Partners of Excellence (The Auto Channel)
BOWLING GREEN, Ky.November 28, 2007; Camping World, America’s RV and Outdoor Store today announced its 2007 Accessory and Aftermarket Partners of Excellence. Accreditation was based on a number of predicating factors including, inventory turns, customer service, product innovation and training. us.rd.yahoo.com
China to expand nature reserves for biodiversity conservation (People's Daily)
China will establish more nature reserves in an effort to preserve its rich natural resources and biodiversity, said Zhu Lieke, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration (SFA) on Tuesday. By 2020, the SFA will directed 2, ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Scientific American Magazine: Catching No Rays
If you’re being shot at, you could do worse than diving into a swimming pool. As the Discovery Channel show MythBusters once demonstrated, even a few feet of water can slow a bullet to nonlethal speeds. A similar drama plays itself out in the cosmos. To particles moving faster than a certain velocity, just shy of the speed of light, the tenuous haze of microwave radiation that fills space might as well be a dense sea. Passing through a few hundred million light-years of it should slow a particle to more moderate speeds. rss.sciam.com