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For 450 years before the first successful voyage in 1906, people sought the Northwest Passage, a potentially lucrative shipping route linking Europe to Asia that would cut out the lengthy journey around the horn of South America.

Many died trying to find it, including Sir John Franklin whose HMS Erebus and HMS Terror attempted the fabled Passage in 1845 but sank without a trace. Their 129 men died eating each other on the unforgiving ice.

But by the time Dueck set off on his voyage more than 100 years later in June 2009, 35 sailing yachts had made the trip. The majority of those took place after 1990, made possible by a stark reality: the ice was now melting fast.

I wanted...

ATHENS, GREECE, May 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
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HYDERABAD: Madhuri Reddy calls herself a grave hunter. She got hooked to the hobby when she visited the Armenian cemetery at Uppuguda with her father as a 10-year-old. She got her first Hotshot camera soon after and capturing images of sombre tombstones became a fascination. A postgraduate student of History, Madhuri wants to study gravestone rubbing, which involves copying inscriptions from tombstones on to a parchment paper for preservation for future generations.

Madhuri can be called a taphophile, one who loves tombstones or cemeteries. It comes from the same origin as cenotaph and epitaph, says Sunder Behearwani, president, Hyderabad Philately and Hobby Society (HPHS). Madhuri...

Hobbies are supposed to be relaxing, a way to distract yourself from day-to-day stresses and activate a different part of the mind. But they also have a way of bleeding bank accounts. And when people think they have money to burn, which is different from whether they actually have money to burn, that bleeding can turn into a gush.

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National Hospital Week is May 6-12. With nearly 1,200 employees, Lake Regional Health System is commemorating the week with activities for staff and physicians. Throughout the week, well profile exceptional staff representing the variety of rewarding health care careers available at the hospital.

Name: Peggy Vlasis

Hobbies: Peggy enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, and she volunteers at her church and in Lake Regionals garden. She says, I tried canning the last couple of years and really enjoy that. My sister has been teaching me to grow herbs and do more cooking with them. I would like to try to make soap this summer because I didnt quite get around to it last summer....

BOSTON, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Interactions Corporation, provider of the most natural, conversational automated systems for customer care, announced today that Sanjeev Sawai has joined the company as Vice President of Platform Engineering. As Vice President of Platform Engineering, Sawai will maintain responsibility for Platform Engineering including software development and quality assurance. “Sanjeev’s extensive industry experience and dedication to quality make him the ideal...

Good Chemistry: Grad Students Design Engaging Elementary School Science Lessons

May 10, 2012 A group of chemistry students from the University of Virginias Graduate School of Arts Sciences goes into an elementary school classroom and poses a very important question:

A pirate has gone on a sea voyage and comes home with scurvy. Which juice should he bring with him next time to prevent getting this illness?

To find the answer, the students first must learn what scurvy is (a disease causing weakness, swollen joints, muscle hardness, gum problems, tooth loss, and slow healing of wounds, according to WebMD) and what prevents...

Anybody with a serious outdoor hobby has the dream of living right next to it.

Eliminate the hassle of loading up all the gear, and driving and parking and unloading and reloading, and you have a hobby with a lot less hassle. Which means you will do it more often. Which means you will get better at it.

Plus there is the immeasurable factor of looking more local and cool if you ride up on your bike instead of having to wrestle it off of one of those ridiculous roof racks.

If you take away snow skiing – the biggest car-hassle sport of them all – just about every other vigorous athletic pursuit is done here in the Bay Area, and there are people living with it at their...

LOS ANGELES, CA, May 10, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –
Zumbox, the world’s first digital postal system, today announced a
secure, digital alternative for Wells Fargo vSafe to service the
Wells Fargo customers affected by the service’s closing as of March
2012.

As consumers increase interactions with various online properties,
the need for a secure digital destination for document storage and
retrieval also increases. Zumbox is a provider of digital postal mail
and...

In retirees Man Cave, a return to the hobbies of youth

Outnumbered by the women at an Irvine senior living center, men rediscover the joy of model making that has been dormant since they were young. Along with trains and planes, they build fellowship.