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Melvoin embarked on his trip—equipped with a bulging backpack, visas, and tickets for only the first month of the trip—during the summer before most of his other classmates went off to college...
Harvard College Library employee David S. Toomey was arrested at the Alewife T Station yesterday morning after allegedly implying that he had a bomb in his backpack, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) official said last night. He will be arraigned in Cambridge District Court this morning on charges of disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that both commuters and MBTA employees overheard Toomey making verbal threats about the contents of his backpack. Bomb technicians were brought in to examine the backpack. They found no explosives, Pesaturo added. Rail service was suspended between...
...organized the exhibition with the Peabody Essex, is the show’s last stop, and it warrants a visit before it closes in early September.If the walk there seems too long or too strenuous, just remember that the Wulsins’ cameras weighed several times more than your backpack. But then, again, they had camels.—Staff writer Jeremy S. Singer-Vine can be reached at jsvine@fas.harvard.edu...
...removing my laptop from its case, I resigned myself to my fate. A hidden metal button on the hip of my jeans caused the security guards to charge me down with batons in hand, while simultaneously the miniscule tube of chapstick from the very bottom of my rather large backpack got confiscated for being a potential bomb. I decided that the day had already gone so wrong that it couldn’t possibly get any worse. The flight would be fine, I’d get some school work done, and maybe I would even get to sit next...
...Then in the very back, I saw what frightened me beyond comprehension: a (very) young dad with not one, but TWO, (very) young toddlers, the three of whom were occupying not only 24D and F, but most of E as well. As I squeezed myself between them, navigating a backpack, stuffed Elmo toys, and even a two-year-old climbing over my lap to get his ninja sword, I resigned myself to my fate. Forget dreams of that hot romance instigated in JetBlue row 24. Hell, forget even catching up on some of that forgotten homework. My only option: sleep...