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  Rolf Potts reading at The Raconteur, Tuesday, November 17, 2009. A veteran travel columnist, Rolf Potts has reported from more than fifty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, Conde Nast Traveler, Outside, The Believer, The Guardian (UK), National Public Radio, Salon.com, World Hum, and the Travel Channel. His adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitching across Eastern Europe, hiking Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, and driving a Land Rover from Sunnyvale, California to Ushuaia, Argentina. Rolf's essays have appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, and sixteen of his stories have been short-listed for The Best American Travel Writing, including "Storming The Beach,'" which Bill Bryson chose as a main selection in 2000, and "Tantric Sex for Dilettantes," which Tim Cahill selected in 2006. Each July Rolf can be found in France, where he is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.
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  TED Conference, The R-Word,First La...
  Sorry for this being late! I've been insanely busy and then youtube was doing their maintenance so... yeah:) Story Links: Ted Conference www.ted.com Michelle Obama's Anti-Obesity Campaign shine.yahoo.com Islam Day in Hawaii www.worldhum.com Palin and the R-word news.yahoo.com Email news idea/topics/questions at up2theminuteyrac@gmail.com and you could be featured in an upcoming video. Oh yeah, that's right:) Thanks for watching!
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  baby newt: RAMJET...Pohnpei PSYCHED...
  band...BABY NEWT 1995ish cd...ZINKA song...RAMJET ADAM DERSHEWITZ...BASS JOE KOLLMAN...DRUMS, VOCALS ERIC SKERBECK (RIP)...GUITAR, VOCALS PAUL HEIDERSCHEIDT...GUITAR, VOCALS "It is said to be the second-rainiest place on earth. Kolonia, the only large town on the island, is perched on the northern coast and receives about 12 feet of rain a year. The deep, uninhabited mountainous interior gets twice that amount. With the heat of the tropics and all the rain, jungle grows thickly across the island. Palm trees and breadfruit trees grow in abundance, as do banana trees, whose wide, shiny leaves are sometimes cut and used as biodegradable umbrellas during one of the many sudden rainstorms. Life on the island was slow and peaceful, sometimes euphorically serene. But thousands of dogs roam the island, and dog encounters were a part of daily life while I was there. Some of the dogs were wild, and wandered about, homeless. Others belonged to specific families, lived in their yards, and possibly had names. But they were not pets in the same sense that dogs are pets in the United States. Another interesting fact about dogs on Pohnpei is that they are sometimes killed, cooked, and eaten. Dog meat is a delicacy on the island. Many people whom I spoke to about this told me that they loved it, finding it tasty. Pohnpei is a place of abundant food, and as far as I could tell, people ate dog not out of a sense of need but instead, pleasure. The Pohnpeian word for dog is kidi and the word <b>...</b>
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  Rolf Potts joins Trekkies aboard a...
  Teaser video for the Travel Channel's worldhum.com: In a series of gonzo dispatches, travel writer Rolf Potts recounts his experiences with 100 die-hard Trekkies aboard a Star Trek theme cruise to Bermuda. Read the full 5-part series online at: www.worldhum.com