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Getting that close to nature isn't a compulsory part of a stay at an environmentally friendly resort. But at the Daintree Eco Lodge & Spa, where tree-house villas are set on stilts above the compound's waterfall-fed creek, it's hard to avoid a bit of communing. Located 90 minutes by car northwest of Cairns on 30 acres of rain forest next to the Daintree River, the Eco Lodge offers visitors a front-row seat at one of nature's greatest shows: the world's oldest continuously surviving rain forest. Dusk on any of Daintree's screened...
...avenue: the Facebook. This fall, there was a girl in Florida who posted many pictures of her minimally clad self that somehow led to an invitation to appear in Playboy. The probability that this will happen to you is probably right up there with the probability that you will avoid contracting some odd disease after jumping off the Weeks Footbridge into the Charles. Not good...
...Boston Community Relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, who served on Boston’s School Board during the 1980s.In 1998, a Boston Globe article generated community outrage when it revealed that the University had acquired 52 acres in Allston using a front company, a tactic to avoid paying the highest price that a seller would expect from a University with a multi-billion dollar endowment.But the University has been working in Allston for years to coordinate their master plan—set to be released in the next two years—with Boston?...
...critics are able to turn their acid pens on Hollywood’s latest trash, the damage to film fans’ wallets will already be done. Critics lose. Moviegoers lose. Studios win…maybe. Savvy cineastes already know that films withheld from critics are usually terrible, and avoid them accordingly. Fans disappointed by this season’s batch of un-reviewed movies—including stinkers like the Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” and the Mo’Nique star vehicle “Phat Girlz?...
...have come off of the band’s last three albums. And it’s too bad that the song’s so lousy, because the video’s concept and execution are solid. The Chili Peppers ham it up with enough self-deprecation to avoid looking too hubristic, even when thrusting themselves into some of music’s most storied moments. Impersonating the Beatles is a bold move for any rock band, but lead singer Anthony Kiedis and the boys manage to pull off the physical comedy successfully. Plus, they look like they?...