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...spend plenty of money on these learning adventures. A five-day complete package at Knight Inlet Lodge, which includes the flight to and from Vancouver Island, accommodations and food, boat tours, wildlife viewing, presentations, tracking, kayaking and fishing, costs a couple up to $4,720. Still this is much less than an equivalent safari in Africa--and less than many similar adventures offered by U.S. outfitters, in part because of the weak Canadian dollar...
...return for spending thousands of dollars on a vacation, wildlife viewers want knowledgeable and personable guides and staff. At Knight Inlet Lodge, the guests applaud the staff, no less attractive than the Baywatch gang, only fully clothed and better educated. Guest Larry Jandrew of Asheville, N.C., who brought a family party of himself and seven others to the lodge, was particularly taken by Meg Pocklington, a Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Center research assistant, who during a long hike through the rain forest took special care of Jandrew's mother-in-law Kitty Conley. Pat Chadwick and Sam Twyford, a retired...
...thousands to Ontario's Algonquin Park (www.algonquinpark.on.ca), 3,000 sq. mi. of wild country--with an unusual attraction: public wolf howls. Provided park naturalists find packs in suitable locations in advance, howls take place on Thursday nights in August. Folks drive hours to attend a howl, which may last less than two minutes. Yet "no one goes away disappointed," says park naturalist Rick Stronks. When this haunting symphony of adult wolves and pups begins, not a peep is heard from human crowds as large...
...forces of the free market. Insurance companies, in a dash to sign up tens of millions of new policyholders, come up with an array of attractive new offerings well beyond Medicare's--dental coverage, eyeglasses, hearing aids, annual physicals, prescription drugs. Everyone benefits--and at far less cost to the government...
...have drug-assistance programs in operation (six others have passed laws to start them), the benefits they offer vary widely, and the Governors have said they don't want the responsibility. What's more, experience with other programs--like providing drug benefits through Medicaid--suggests the states are far less efficient than the Federal Government at enrolling those who are eligible...