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...obviously not being mocked by Store 24 employees on a Saturday night (see last week's edition of Fifteen Minutes for more details). Your problem is a good one to have. As freshmen desperately cruise the Yard looking for something better to do than chat up the backpack checkers in Lamont or crowd into an impossibly small common room with 400 sweaty classmates, you can let the people come...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: ASK APARNA | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...technical" backpack. The North Face or Lowe Alpine will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: groovy train | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...advisory described the perpetrator as a black male, 20 to 30 years old, 5'6 to 5'8", 140 to 150 pounds and wearing a baseball cap, blue jeans, a red and white windbreaker and a green backpack...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Police Issue Advisory on Assaults in Area | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Bend National Park in Texas when she saw through the viewfinder that her eight-year-old was upset. "I turned around and saw there was a big mountain lion getting ready to pounce," she said. Cooder drew her three girls behind her and pulled a pocketknife from her backpack. She waved the knife and screamed, but the cat kept running at her children, she says, "trying to cut them out of the herd like they were baby deer." After ducking under ledges while flailing at the cougar, Cooder and her children made it safely back into their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Off My Turf | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...body garment shot through with a webwork of cooling tubes, he stepped into a NASA training room at the Johnson Space Center and glanced at a space-shuttle simulator standing in front of him. A technician then helped him struggle into a heavy orange flight suit. Stuffed into the backpack of the 90-lb. pressure garment was a huge load of survival equipment: a life preserver, an emergency food and water supply, a pair of emergency oxygen bottles, a bouquet of rescue beacons and an array of other gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: Back To The Future | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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