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conversations.value: a title for a book about Travel, amp, Leisure with the genre: Travel, Reference
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life'
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life
  Founded in 1971, Earthwatch has supported more than 1,300 field research projects in 119 countries. These projects, run by respected members of the scientific community, have addressed problems ranging from public health to declining biodiversity. Earthwatch-supported work in the Peruvian rain forest canopy, for example, revised estimates for the total number of insect species from 1.5 million upward to 6 million. A decade-long botanical study in the highland forests of western Cameroon uncovered 50 new endemic plant species.
  Earthwatch teams work in some of the most interesting places on Earth, oftentimes in areas inaccessible to tourists. Sites range from Inner Mongolia to the Outer Hebrides, from Hudson Bay to Uruguay. Most of these intense, hands-on research projects last 10 to 14 days, but there are also one-week, three-week, and weekend projects.
  Accommodations on Earthwatch projects range from condos to hammocks. On one expedition to Mongolia, volunteers shared a communal brick bed in the home of a Mongolian goatherd. There may be hot showers or only a bucket of cold water. There may be private bathrooms or pit toilets. Food also runs the gamut from cheese sandwiches and an apple to fare from a four-star Hungarian restaurant with an extensive wine cellar.
  Each project includes a detailed expedition briefing that explains logistics, as well as a history of the expedition, its research mission, its goals, the background of the researcher, reference maps, and a recommended reading list.
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conversations.value: IONS also is a membership organization that collaborates with other groups committed to personal and societal transformation. Many of these groups offer public workshops, retreats, and conferences at the 200-acre IONS campus, which is set among oaks, hiking trails, and rolling Sonoma County hills. Workshops range from a weekend of shamanic journeys to weeklong workshops exploring states of consciousness. Room and board runs from $108 to $135 per day. Because IONS' programs are so diverse and because the visiting organization leading a workshop or retreat determines the price, the cost of instruction varies.
  Institute of Noetic Sciences, 101 San Antonio Road, Petaluma, CA 94952, 707-775-3500, www.noetic.org.
  Close Up, a Virginia-based nonprofit, was started in 1971 by Stephen Janger to give young Americans a sense of direction and of purpose. At the time, he was organizing tours of Europe for high school students, and he noticed that a lot of his young charges were against the "establishment," but that they had no real idea of what the establishment was or how it really worked. He decided to show middle school and high school students that the "system" they were railing against did accept input and that change could happen if they simply understood the inner workings of politics and took the time to get involved.
  The Close Up Foundation added weeklong adult programs in civics education in 1984. On one of these programs, you'll learn not only how public policy impacts every facet of your life, but also how, by getting involved, you can have a say and actually make a difference. Through seminars, tours, and daily briefings, you'll learn your rights as a citizen as well as your responsibilities. Not only will you tour all the most famous Washington landmarks on this trip, but you'll also meet face to face with Washington insiders, get a behind-the-scenes peek at Capitol Hill, and observe sessions of Congress and the Supreme Court. You'll attend workshops and seminars given by such Washington players as Karen Tumulty, Time magazine's White House correspondent; Brian Lamb, CEO of C-Span; James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA; and Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball.
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conversations.value: Many of these groups offer public workshops, retreats, and conferences at the 200-acre IONS campus, which is set among oaks, hiking trails, and rolling Sonoma County hills. Workshops range from a weekend of shamanic journeys to weeklong workshops exploring states of consciousness. Room and board runs from $108 to $135 per day. Because IONS' programs are so diverse and because the visiting organization leading a workshop or retreat determines the price, the cost of instruction varies.
  Institute of Noetic Sciences, 101 San Antonio Road, Petaluma, CA 94952, 707-775-3500, www.noetic.org.
  Close Up, a Virginia-based nonprofit, was started in 1971 by Stephen Janger to give young Americans a sense of direction and of purpose. At the time, he was organizing tours of Europe for high school students, and he noticed that a lot of his young charges were against the "establishment," but that they had no real idea of what the establishment was or how it really worked. He decided to show middle school and high school students that the "system" they were railing against did accept input and that change could happen if they simply understood the inner workings of politics and took the time to get involved.
  The Close Up Foundation added weeklong adult programs in civics education in 1984. On one of these programs, you'll learn not only how public policy impacts every facet of your life, but also how, by getting involved, you can have a say and actually make a difference. Through seminars, tours, and daily briefings, you'll learn your rights as a citizen as well as your responsibilities. Not only will you tour all the most famous Washington landmarks on this trip, but you'll also meet face to face with Washington insiders, get a behind-the-scenes peek at Capitol Hill, and observe sessions of Congress and the Supreme Court. You'll attend workshops and seminars given by such Washington players as Karen Tumulty, Time magazine's White House correspondent; Brian Lamb, CEO of C-Span; James Woolsey, the former director of the CIA; and Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' Spa appointments are extra and can be scheduled in advance.'.
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conversations.value: The Queen Mary 2, christened by no less than the Queen of England herself, has been described as larger than life. Here's why:
  Cunard Line, which owns and operates the Queen Mary 2, has been in the cruise-ship business since 1840, when it began offering the first timetable passenger service across the Atlantic. Over the years, its fleet contained RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the survivors of the ill-fated Titanic, and the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, which between them carried more than 1.5 million troops during World War II.
  Prices range from $699 for a four-day cruise in a standard room to $185,905 for a round-the-world cruise in a 2,249-square-foot suite with a two-story glass wall overlooking the ocean. Spa appointments are extra and can be scheduled in advance.