Pawsengers to take off on a pet-only airline.
The airline business has to the dogs. Literally. On Pet Airways, the world's first animal-only airline, pets fly in the main cabin and not in the cargo hold. What's it like on a Pet Airways flight? If you are imagining a Boeing 747 with dogs and cats curled ...
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The Tubohotel provides creative “rooms” at an affordable price
At the Dasparkhotel in Austria you can spend the night in a drainage pipe. But why settle for a drainage pipe hotel when you can stay in an entire drainage pipe resort? That's what you'll find at the Tubohotel in Tepoztlan, Mexico.
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In the desert, a resort carved into the rock
With enough money, modern technology and piped-in water anyone can build a luxury resort in the middle of a desert. (Exhibit #1: Las Vegas.) But building a luxury resort in the middle of the desert in a completely environmentally sustainable way—that's a challenge. Yet Oppenheim, an architecture firm ...
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Grocery shop while waiting for the train
South Korea is the second-hardest working country in the world1. All those hours at the office don't leave much time for food shopping. So when England-based grocery store chain Tesco (called Homeplus locally) wanted to expand their market share in the Korean capital they looked to a place ...
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Put extra luggage space to good use with Stuff Your Rucksack
A school in Jamaica doesn't have enough pencils. A rural jobs program in Thailand needs cell phones. In South Africa, an orphanage could use more toys. How do we know that? And what can you do about it? The answer to both those questions is the same—Stuff Your ...
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“Dominant” opens in Japan
Any self-respecting world-class roller coaster enthusiast has to visit the Fuji-Q High Land at least once. The amusement park—in Yamanashi, Japan, almost literally in the shadow of Mt. Fuji—is home to many of the planet's best rides. The self-assigned goal of the Fuji-Q High Land park: To build ...
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