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...Miller arrived in Paris in 1930, he was immediately impressed by one aspect of the French capital's street life. "Montmartre is simply lousy with whores," he noted on his first Sunday in town. "They sit in the cafés and beckon to you from the window, or bunk smack up against you in the street, and invite you to come along." You're more likely to bump into a tourist in Montmartre today, but Miller would recognize those streetwalkers in other parts of the city. After dark, the ringroad that circles Paris is dotted with very young girls...
...past, doctors and scientists have tended to dismiss that view as bunk, but the more they learn about the inner workings of the mind, the more they realize that in this regard at least, the mystics are right and Descartes was dead wrong...
Among those detained were eight Pakistani Islamists suspected of aiding Reid. Early reports indicated that the raids had bagged Reid's partners. But French investigators tell TIME that though evidence and testimony suggest that the suspects knew Reid and let him bunk in the basement of a Pakistani restaurant, they probably did not know of his plot. One reason the investigators feel this way: none of the suspects' palms match the prints found on the explosives packed in Reid's shoe...
...encounters with Australian camels involve one-pot dinners cooked on campfires, going unwashed for four days or sleeping under the stars. At the town of Alice Springs the ships of the desert bunk down in the suburbs, where Frontier Camels runs its Take a Camel to Dinner tour, which includes an hour-long ramble to a rustic restaurant and camel museum; click on cameltours.com.au for more info. The menu features excellent kangaroo sausage and bush tomato pesto, along with a selection of camel cuts. Despite my growing affection for the ungainly beasts, I must admit that smoked camel goes down...
...ceiling is so high that when I sleep on the top bunk, it feels like I am on a normal bed,” says Stephen W. Stromberg ’05, who is also a Crimson editor...