Word: backpacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five years ago, an eco-activist and self-taught electronics whiz named Stephen Dunifer founded Free Radio Berkeley, trekking up into the hills behind the city and transmitting out of his backpack one night a week with home-built equipment. Soon, with the help of volunteers, Dunifer, 46, was selling kits around the country, enabling anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted...
...Cambridge resident reported that he left his backpack outside The Harvard Crimson at 14 Plympton St. He entered the building, and when he exited, the backpack was gone. It contained books and papers...
...time of the assault, the suspect was reported as neatly dressed, wearing a Gortex-type green length rain jacket and light blue jeans. He had a dark colored oval backpack on his back...
...already in her twenties when she first meets Ruth, she is still "growing up" throughout the play, both as a writer and an individual. Each scene requires her to be different person, a challenge which Jones handles gracefully. Her transition from a fawning grad-student with a teddy-bear backpack to an accomplished writer giving a speech at the 92nd St. Y is both striking and fluid. Jones' performance adeptly displays the conflict between Lisa's love for her mentor and her need to establish her own life as a writer...
...history teacher sighed and slipped the learning kit into his backpack. This had been the most trying year of Henry's career at Huntington. The movie industry had produced more than 300 films, many of which had tanked after one weekend, and planning a coherent history curriculum had taken a toll on his nerves. Although Henry had conscientiously prepared--even flying out to L.A. with other district teachers for the summer pitch meetings--he never felt he had a handle on which films would likely gross enough to be teachable. A film that couldn't open, that did only...