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...Opium uses a multimedia approach to trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered...
...middleman. With Lost World, we paid $1,890 each (not counting airfare) for 14 days--food, transportation and four hotel nights included. But prices vary depending on where you go and how many people are in the group. Lost World's website is at kamchatkapeninsula.com For cruises, try the Clipper Cruise Line, based in St. Louis, Mo. clippercruise.com) One worthy nonprofit, the Wild Salmon Center of Portland, Ore. wildsalmoncenter.org) has been guiding fishing and scientific expeditions to Kamchatka for years. For information on Kamchatka volcanoes, see volcanoworld.org...
...want to hear when he abandons Mike Krzyzewski for the NBA after one year and a loss in the 1999 NCAA Championship game. And then he’ll eventually grumble to the press when he finds trouble getting consistent playing time under Alvin Gentry as a Los Angeles Clipper in a longjam of wingmen that also includes Quentin Richardson...
...last day, with his average right at .400 (actually .39955), his manager suggested he sit out the doubleheader. Williams declined, went 6 for 8 and achieved the now sacred .406. Yet no bard sang his praises; instead, the airwaves were filled with Joltin' Joe DiMaggio--for the Yankee Clipper, who had hit in 56 consecutive games (another feat not approached in six decades). Though Williams had the stronger season, baseball writers named DiMaggio the league...
Everyone now has his nail-clipper, tweezers or X-rayed-shoe story. Can-you-top-this tales of luggage and body searches have become a staple of cocktail chatter. Yet citizens would willingly subject themselves to delay, inconvenience and even indignity if they felt what they were undergoing was actually improving airport security. Since Sept. 11, subjecting oneself to security indignities has been a civic duty. But this has become a parody of civic duty. Random searches are being done purely to defend against the charge of racial profiling...