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...building its plant, Alcoa gets access to Iceland's cheap and clean hydropower and a new harbor facility to be built nearby. The company says that when production begins in 2007, the plant will be one of the most efficient, safe and environmentally friendly in the world. Aluminum is smelted from an oxide called alumina, which is refined from bauxite ore - and Fjardaál will be capable of churning out 322,000 metric tons of aluminum each year. Alcoa says it will recycle materials and use the most eco-friendly production technology to control fumes and minimize waste discharge...
...uninhabited. But the cognoscenti swear by its crystal-clear waters, coarse sand, craggy coves and the single taverna that serves up savory Greek dishes. Blue Star Ferries run trips to Ano Koufonissi three times a week from Piraeus. Don't expect luxurious accommodation on the island, but there are clean and quaint pensions like Akrogiali, tel: (30-228) 507 1685, near the harbor. PORTO KATSIKI, LEFKADA According to ancient Greek lore, unrequited lovers leapt from the cliffs of Porto Katsiki to die in the turquoise waters below. These days visitors prefer to hike down the 80 steep and narrow steps...
...warm jacket as the weather gets cold. So when my mum asked that I call her every night while I was traveling on the West Coast, I thought it was mildly excessive. After all, I am in New Zealand, where people drive on the left, and things are so clean you have to struggle to get sick. But I agreed nonetheless—I had a phone card and a cell phone. How hard could it be to make mum happy...
...SALAAM, Tanzania —My parents, friends and relatives wondered how I’d ever get by here. I like the amenities of life in the developed world—decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...
...LATIN AMERICA VENEZUELA: A psychiatrist fights to keep the recall vote clean...