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Tips To Ride In The Rain Without Ruining Your Bike

At certain times of the year, you will have to venture out in the rain if you don’t want to stay cooped up indoors. If you’re a racer, riding in the rain is a good idea, since you never know when you’ll end up racing in the rain. The good news is, riding in the rain can be a ton of fun! The bad news is, rain and road debris do a number on your bicycle! So here are 10 tips to keep your road bike in good condition when you ride in inclement weather:

Myths About Soy

Myth: Soy foods contain estrogen compounds that may cause hormonal disturbances.

SoyNutrition.com - Your site for soy nutrition news and information

Soy foods are among the most nutritionally viable products available today. Suggested to positively impact various health issues, including cardiovascular disease, menopausal symptoms, diabetes, obesity and certain types of cancer, soy is an exceptional protein alternative

Charity Bolivia - Colonia Ecologica (Blog): A new trufi?

Charity Bolivia is a small charity and all money donated or raised goes directly to the projects we work with - there are no administration costs!

The Independent Florida Alligator: Blogs - Herbs and Spices: Part 1

* Home * Alligator Blogs * Gator Bites Herbs and Spices: Part 1 * Story * Discussion Share This Share Send this page to your friends Print Create a hardcopy of this page Font Size: Default font size Larger font size CYNTHIA DESPRES, Alligator Blogger | Posted: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:40 pm | 0 comments You’ve probably tasted far more herbs and spices than you can name, which makes it difficult to know what you should add to a dish to replicate a specific flavor. Here are the names, appearances and uses of a few hebrs that are a must-have in the kitchen:

Rainwater Harvesting with High-Quality Rainbarrels | RainWater-Barrels.com

A single 20′ X 30′ roof can yield over 13,000 gallons of rainwater. If you capture only a fraction of that, you’ll go a long way toward preserving our rapidly diminishing fresh water supply.

Lima to La Paz - Canyons, Inca Trail and Death Road

The Spitting Llama

We are the only foreign language bookstore in Bolivia and we supply everything from Lonely Planet guidebooks, maps, backpacks and tents, to organic coffee, cuban cigars and Quechua poetry. We rent camping equipment, bikes, and loan out, exchange & sell books in English, Quechua, German, Spanish, Aymara, Guarani, and many other languages.

Do Travel Writers Go To Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm

A comic rogue who seems to have modeled his life and prose on Hunter S. Thompson’s… I could not get enough of the most depraved travel book of the year.

Un-Natural Selection

Hiking on Paynes Prairie yesterday, we watched a large flock of turkeys strutting among the dog fennel and salt bush plants. But we were also a bit horrified...

How to Cheat Time

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The Food Issue - Why Jonathan Safran Foer Chose to Give Up Meat - NYTimes.com

Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting.

Hanshan (poet)

Hanshan (Chinese: 寒山; pinyin: Hánshān; literally "Cold Mountain", fl. 9th century) was a legendary figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Chan tradition. He is honored as an incarnation of the Bodhisattva -figure Manjusri in Zen lore.

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

Hacked E-Mail Is New Fodder for Climate Dispute

Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.