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...Reed College, Portland, Ore. At this year's "Renn Fayre," Reedies burned their theses, Jell-O wrestled, ate bugs off one another's skin and flailed to the rock band Paradise Citizens...
...Friday. No "bamboo bicycle that powers a generator," as Hanks puts it. "The influence of Gilligan's Island on our national psyche has been extremely powerful." To prepare, Broyles spent a few days with experienced survivalists on a remote Mexican coast, carving spears to catch sting rays, which he ate raw because he couldn't build a fire...
...world in which no one was dying, no one was being born; a half-life, floating world, a bubble from which she observed and recorded and made of her observations an alternate world of association and image, a world as real to her, as present, as the food she ate. She was too busy now, too tired, too occupied with taking care and keeping up, too drenched in sensation, to think about living, to draw conclusions; she ate to keep going, to stay awake, to stay competent, to be healthy, to feed her baby, to get everything done. The interior...
Another factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...
...outside the former POW prison where he was savagely forced to sign a war-crimes confession, his voice is tinged with the nostalgia others feel for their bright college years. "My cell was over there," he says. "That was the interrogation room. That's where the guards ate." As he speaks, Vietnamese pedestrians walk by and give him and his press entourage quizzical looks. Young boys try to sell him postcards. Though this is the week Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniversary of its victory, in a country where 53% of the population is under 25, the "American...