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TO SAVE A WATERING HOLE

If Reuven Yosef doesn't win his fight against developers in Israel's hottest resort town, half of Europe's birds might disappear

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Mark Cherrington
Publication: 2000 Discover
Read by: Jim Weyman
Length: 16 minutes

NATURAL LIGHT

Life amoung vermonts hippies, hunters, bears and moose.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Edward Hoagland
Publication: 1999 Harper's Magazine
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 52 minutes

MARSEILLES MOMENT

French nuances of cool--or not.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Amy Wilentz
Publication: 2002 Conde Nast Traveler
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 30 minutes

KINGDOM OF APPLES

Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: David Gutterson
Publication: 1999 Harper's Magazine
Read by: Melissa Stewart
Length: 66 minutes

BOAT CAMP

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: William Booth
Publication: 2000 The Washington Post Magazine
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 18 minutes

ACCOMMODATIONS

And what was it like to live there?

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Richard Ford
Publication: 2000
Read by: Steven Schiff
Length: 15 minutes

A MYTHIC SOUTH PACIFIC

The height of civilization is a resort with electricity and showers.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: J. Maarten Troost
Publication: 2000
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 18 minutes

FAINT OF HEART IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS

A worrywart ventures forth on a deluxe safari--very, very reluctantly.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Samuel Jay Keyser
Publication: 2000
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 20 minutes

SPEAKING OF SOUP

The culinary approach to Spanish.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Calvin Trillin
Publication: The New Yorker
Read by: Vi Benner
Length: 19 minutes

A MYTHIC SOUTH PACIFIC

Tanna is the kind of island you may think never really existed.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: J. Maarten Troost
Publication: 2000 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by: Mary Roth
Length: 18 minutes

OAKDALE DAYS

Why do so many terrible things keep happening to one town?

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Larissa MacFarquhar
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Jennette McDonough
Length: 36 minutes

OUR FIRST TELEPHONE

we want privacy and still we want to listen in.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Leslie Leyland Fields
Publication: 2000 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 17 minutes

THAT SINKING FEELING

Doesn't' Venice want to be saved?

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Michael Specter
Publication: 1999 The New Yorker
Read by: Cheryl Schuttee
Length: 19 minutes

THE HIGH MARK

Mountains, grizzlies, and the smell of exhaust in the morning.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Author: Mark Singer
Publication: 2002 The New Yorker
Read by: Paulette Banks
Length: 25 minutes

THE NEAR NORTH

There have always been good reasons to visit Iceland's exotic desolation, but next year will bring a few new ones.

Topic: Regional and Travel
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Publication: 1999 The Atlantic Monthly
Read by: Gail Farley
Length: 24 minutes