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...Four Seasons resort in the Maldives, he spends his days trying to give to thousands of others an experience that, give or take a man Friday, should strictly be solitary. "We all fantasize about a desert island, like Robinson Crusoe, with nothing on it but a palm tree," he says. "That's paradise." It's a measure of how well the Maldives has preserved this dreamscape that each year it can still turn half a million people into castaways...
...Often we greet guests at check-in and don't see them again until they check out," notes Kraenzlin with a proud smile. "They take all meals in the rooms. They live on the balcony, staring into the sky and the sea." Try also the Banyan Tree on nearby Vabbinfaru Island. This exquisite resort offers no air-conditioning but features conical huts that stay cool naturally. Doubles begin at $425 a night; call...
Every day Carel Van Schaik heard the chain saws as gangs of illegal loggers cut through the trees across the river from his orangutans' forest habitat. And every day the fighting between Acehnese rebels and the army moved closer; mutilated bodies sometimes were found dumped in these very forests. Indonesia was literally falling apart, village by village, tree by tree, and that meant extinction was nigh for myriad species, among them Van Schaik's orangutans. Environmentalists once said the apes might be extinct in a matter of decades; their increasingly frantic warnings now spoke of just years. Orangutans need virgin...
...forward to a new arms race and thought global warming a minor inconvenience compared with doing without its SUVs. Strange, then, that the first live bullets used in the wave of recent protests against global capitalism should have been fired not in Seattle or Washington but in peace-loving, tree-hugging, social-democratic Scandinavia. Americans, it turns out, do not have a monopoly on mindless violence, nor Europeans one on the Cartesian application of enlightened reason to the great issues...
Right now, in the middle of a Joshua-tree forest in southwestern Utah, there's a Folgers coffee can containing a pen, a notebook and a large rubber snake. It's just one of hundreds of prizes in the global scavenger hunt known as geocaching. All you have to do to win it is to make your way to 37.0939[degrees] N by 113.9429[degrees] W and pick...