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WEB SURF - TEXT: VARIOUS WRITERS ART WORK: MATTHEW CHUN It won't give you directions, but it does let you check out the Earth from the Moon, Sun or any .other planet for whicn YOll have the coordinates, as well as COli tless cities around the globe and any one of 787 satellites. Plus you can see where it's currently day a d night on the planet. There are also topo graphical maps of the Earth, cloud maps and weather map!! sporting current temperatures and con ' tions worldwide. Most of these let you zoom in for closeups. PerbapsJike� Borges�tbe.. Eartb..and Moon Viewer does offer an allegory for where we're really going. BIG BREAKS Text: Alex Salkever _______ .t:l:a loW=a e .,. That northwest swell s due to hit Oahu's infamous Sunset t. How can you make sure the waves are :l:'c tod=� breaking before you head out with your surfboard in the morning-or before you get on that plane to Hawaii? Just click to the University of Hawaii School of Earth and Ocean Science and Technology's Sunset Beach NetCam. The brainchild of UH oceanography professor Pierre Flament, the NetCam remote video camera takes snap shots and series movies of wave action at Sunset. Web surfers can either download hourly snapshots or aver aged series movies in MPEG format. The servic& also pro- vides background information on Hawaiian oceanogra phy as well as regular surf reports from Oahu breaks. The NetCam is part of a three-year, $1 million NASA funded effort called Virtually Hawaii, hat brings together the sciences and sights of the islands. It is one of several NASA Internet projects that funds local websites under ' ---���- ' the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiative. Other non-NASA-affiliated online surf cams beam wave images right to your desktop or televi sion from Sebastian Inlet in Florida, from Huntington Beach, Malibu and Manhattan Beach in California, and even from Noordwijk in the Netherlands. Sunset Beach site: http://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu:80/ surfcam/sunset.html Florida and Hawaii site: www.surfllnk.com Holland site: skyking.oce.orst.edu:8080/nordze e.html HEAVEN OVER HERE Text: Alex Salkever When James Hi lton penned his classic mountaineering tale, the Lost Horizon, in 1933, a new term for paradise, Shangri-La, burned its way into the world's collective literary conscience. His book inspired countless trips to the Himalayas and hundreds of attempts at Mt. Everest which have left the peak with an estimated fifty tons of high altitude pollution. This is just some of the information you'll find ShangrCLa.html): geologic genesis of the ter dolphins. Combined (look up the gorgeous "paradise" without destroyi (aJephO.cJarku.ed�:80/-rajsl Shangri_La.htmll D llK]�[[EYS AND CHEAP AIRF l ARES Text': Jennifer Kabat It may be one of those mother-always-said-so cliches, but any thing too good to De true often is. It's either illegal or with too many strings attached. Well, how about instead of "Rolexes" in dark alleys you could get cheap airfares to Colorado for moun tain biking, or fares to Hong Kong or London? That's what many airlines are offering, hawking their unsold seats for unbelievably low prices. You have to be able to leave immediately-two or three days after the fares are posted, flying on Friday or Saturday and returning the following Monday or Tuesday. And although you don't need to search for them in dark alleys, you do need to look online which can be almost as scary. Making your way through Internet search engines, checking out all of the individual airlines' websites and then trying to navigate them in search of "cyber offers" can be pretty daunting. That is, if you can even find where the offers are posted in the site. Plus ,all the airline deals differ a little bit. Some post them on their site, others send out email lists once a week and others offer periodic, usually quarterly, auctions where they sell trips to the highest bidders. e ······························· .. ···················· .................................... .