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...before you allow this to plunge you into existential despair, take note of a marvelous new book. The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel, out this month, is the guidebook publisher's attempt to make us see ordinary places in extraordinary ways, thereby revealing the new horizons that beckon right under our noses. "Experimental travel" is the clever invention of Joel Henry, a French journalist who, in 1990, began devising amusing ways of liberating himself and his friends from the often unfulfilling experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary - and often absurd - constraints that turn mundane...
...minutes from the Prudential Center is an alley where bright lights beckon. This bowling spot’s smiling bouncers will politely ask for your 21+ ID after 6 p.m. Try to go before then anyway for the reduced rates, a dollar off the night-time price of $6.50 per game. This converted cinema features lanes lit by neon blue squares and tiny red lights. You won’t have to miss a basketball game when there are projection screens in sight. For a short break, follow the lanterns to the old school Pac Man and pinball machines. After...
...Latin dictionary. Another frustration is that many of the maps' most eye-catching details go unexplained because Nebenzahl's commentary focuses primarily on the historical context. But perhaps this failing is fitting. Presented like this, with their mysteries intact, the maps become, once again, invitations to further explorations. They beckon us into the shadowy waters of the past in search of shores whose edges we have only just begun to glimpse...
...WAKING LIFE: E-mail, laundry and homework all beckon, so who has time for sleep...
...Vice President. But if you want to redeem America (and your boss) in the eyes of the world, you'll have to find a way to restore American leadership. Fortunately, you have the skills and circumstances to pull it off. As President Bush savors his triumph, the history books beckon. And you can help him take a page from Ronald Reagan, who in his second term forsook the mean streets of the cold war for the high road of history-making diplomacy. Reagan's reward was breathtaking. He brought down the Soviet empire without a shot being fired. Here...