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YOUNG CONSERVATIVES Campus activists on the right are more diverse, more organized and better funded than ever. As they rattle the cocoon of liberal education, are they also coarsening campus life...
...oxygen at sea level. As Blake snoozes, his body compensates for the lower level of oxygen it is getting by producing more red blood cells. Because red blood cells carry oxygen through the body, the theory is that generating more of them reduces fatigue. Blake concedes his oxygen cocoon "looks ridiculous" and gets "pretty hot," but he is convinced that spending uncomfortable nights at simulated altitude will help him become a better athlete. Such wizardry isn't cheap. High-altitude tents cost as much as $7,000; the SRM Powermeter costs around $2,900; customized training bikes start at about...
...left, plump and girlishly handsome son Kim Jong Il stands on the deck of a speedboat, surrounded by marines. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries enclosed within a giant red-walled box set up in the museum's hangar-like exhibit space. "It's like entering the cocoon of North Korean reality for a short time," says Koen De Ceuster, a professor at Leiden University's center for Japanese and Korean studies, who served as the museum's adviser. "The people live surrounded by this all the time. For them it's total. There's no escaping...
...personal essay, Updike described his experience at Harvard as a slightly awkward metamorphosis period between a fairly secluded childhood and the butterfly-like confidence of young adulthood. But even if Harvard was Updike’s cocoon it has figured rarely in his oeuvre. While his short fiction in particular—more than a dozen short story collections spanning 50 years—echoes his own biography, only one story explicitly draws on Updike’s undergraduate experience. A 1963 piece called “The Christian Roommates” centers on the first-year experience of Orson...
...interested in assimilating into U.S. society [April 12]. I reject Huntington's unfounded fears about immigration in general and Mexican Americans in particular, whether they are new immigrants or those of us whose roots reach centuries deep into U.S. history. Perhaps Huntington should venture outside academia's cocoon and learn to appreciate the patriotism and contributions made to America by those who are not Anglo-Protestant. American Hispanics serve as an important conduit to all of Latin America, which is probably the U.S.'s last potential ally in a world so much against us. SATURN NINO NORIEGA Alamogordo...