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Edward Kennedy died at Chappaquiddick, along with Mary Jo Kopechne. It's hard to understand how a major figure like Ted could emerge from such a personal disaster, give such a thoroughly unconvincing explanation, and yet continue to pitch for high office. In the U.K. he'd have been finished, no matter how personable he and his brothers might have been. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...Singapore. I prefer an older description: "the Venice of the East." Most early Bangkok residents moved by boat between floating houses; it was not until 1863 that the city's first paved road was built. Today, despite flood-control measures that include a 48-mile (77 km) levee along the Chao Phraya river, Bangkok feels like it's returning to its watery origins. (See pictures of a dam breaks in Jakarta...
...clear-blue-eyed 19-year-old with a blond ponytail, Ben Alexander of Iowa City, tramps along a mossy trail, pops into a chicken coop he recently helped build and grins while clambering up a swinging bridge to a counseling room in a treehouse. This is therapy a la Swiss Family Robinson...
...that the BSO is offering $20 (i.e. dirt-cheap) tickets for people under 40, don't judge. Like newspapers, symphony orchestras either have to beg on their knees for young people to dish out at least some money, or they may die along with their patronage base...
Maybe it is a testament to Flyby's inexperience with the multi-building complex that is Adams House, but finding the house's gym along a subterranean path filled with beautiful murals was nearly impossible. After asking for directions, Flyby finally found the two-room gym, which is in the house's basement nearby the Mt. Auburn Street entrance. While Adams' is the only house reviewed today that split its cardio and weightlifting equipment, the layout failed to give this prison-like gym a sense of space. Instead, it felt hot and cramped...