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Midori Paxton
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 1, 2001
Devolution from concrete to marshland
For years it was a concrete reservoir in Barnes, southwest London. The kind of concrete reservoir that accumulates stolen supermarket trolleys, rusting oil drums, glue sniffers and dead cats.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 17, 2001
Travel from lions to sharks by luxury train
It is 2 p.m. on a cloudless, Friday afternoon. Windhoek's colonial-era station simmers sleepily in the hot sun of Namibia, southwest Africa.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Apr 3, 2001
Namibian desert's barren fruitfulness
The San bushmen knew it as "the great white place" or "the white place of dry water." It is Etosha, one of Africa's most dramatic national parks. Price-wise, it is one of Africa's biggest safari bargains.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 21, 2001
Elat, Israel: This place is for the ornithologists
Perched on the southern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, Elat is a hedonistic cluster of high-rise hotels and bronzing beach bums surrounded by blue sea and burning desert. Basically, it's as close to Las Vegas as Israel gets -- without the gambling.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Mar 7, 2001
Climb rain forests to the clouds
If you've climbed Mount Kinabalu in Sabah Province, Malaysian Borneo, under the impression that you were heroically scaling the highest peak in Southeast Asia, I have bad news.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 21, 2001
Your Earth needs you! Volunteer now
In honor of the United Nations' decision to declare 2001 "The International Year of Volunteers," our last column devoted itself to an utterly shameless advertisement for the book "Kokusai Volunteer Guide: Inside International Voluntary Work," published by The Japan Times and written by Midori Paxton....
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Feb 7, 2001
Why not join the marine corps?
Welcome to the second week of the second month of the United Nations-designated "International Year of Volunteers." To mark this joyous occasion, we are pleased to announce the release of a book named "Kokusai Volunteer Guido," aka "Inside International Volunteer Work," published by The Japan Times and...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 17, 2001
Botswana's delta a force of nature
The Okavango delta (or "the Delta" as it's known by those in the know) is not a swamp, at least not in the conventionally unpleasant sense of the word.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Jan 3, 2001
Walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
Approaching Machu Picchu on foot along Peru's 32-km Inca Trail might sound the stuff of legend. Or, better still, the stuff of Tin Tin. In all honesty, however, it can be more trial than trail.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 20, 2000
Walking along the edge of civilization
Done the Great Wall of China? Try the Great Wall of England. It's arguably the finest Roman monument north of the Alps.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Dec 6, 2000
Mountain stairways to the sky gods
Time, mankind and Mother Nature have not been kind to the Seven Wonders of the World. Six are gone and most people probably couldn't even name them. According to the Philippines tourist people, however, there is an additional Wonder, and it is in remarkably good shape.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 29, 2000
Exploring deepest, darkest New Jersey
New York is New York, and Manhattan is, 24 hours a day, full throttle, unquestionably, Manhattan. What we wanted after two weeks of both was a place that was neither.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Nov 1, 2000
Be sure to do the Galapagos in style
You can "do" the Galapagos right. Or you can "do" the Galapagos wrong.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 18, 2000
Ghost hunting in York
With Halloween just around the corner this column bravely steps beyond the boundary of nature travel and pops its toes into the chilling twilight realm of "supernature" travel.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 4, 2000
The parochial charm of Carmel
Rough Guide guidebooks are some of the best on the store shelf: thorough, entertaining and with excellent briefings on things historical, political and environmental. By and large we, and the Rough Guides, think alike.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 20, 2000
The flawed forests of Cuc Phuong
As many Americans have no doubt already forgotten, and as some will never forget, Vietnam was visited not just by their flag's red, white and blue but also by Agents Orange, White and Blue; toxic herbicides named after the color of their containers. A total of 72 million poisonous liters were dumped...
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Sep 6, 2000
Rolling along through Ngorongoro
The first minutes in Tanzania's famed Ngorongoro crater were neatly summed up by a small boy.
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 30, 2000
Skin diving to save the world's coral reefs
Learn to scuba dive free, receive a complimentary education in tropical marine biology, and get to help save the threatened coral reefs of Southeast Asia and Central America at the same time?
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 16, 2000
Of Rubber Ridley and his Gardens
The Gardens: That is how many locals refer to them. Just The Gardens. As if there were no other, as Bonnie Tinsley wrote in "Visions of Delight."
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Aug 2, 2000
Nature bites back in the Everglades
There isn't another river like it anywhere else in the world.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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