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...doubtful Woody's descendants--or anyone else's--will hang around for the cookout. One possible escape route: an exodus to Mars, which is farther from the sun and hence cooler. But it would take a lot of engineering to turn Mars' frozen, Gobi-like surface into a livable habitat. (Among proposals that have been floated: heating the planet with artificial greenhouse gases, deploying huge orbiting mirrors to catch sunlight and sprinkling heat-absorbing soot on the Martian icecaps.) Eventually, says Mars promoter Robert Zubrin, visitors wouldn't need spacesuits anymore...
...next night--Independence Day--a dozen or so soldiers held a hot-dog cookout around the picnic table. A radio blared music while the soldiers played Wiffle ball and drained a keg of beer. Although 21 is the legal drinking age in Kentucky, younger troops--like the 18-year-old Glover--downed many beers that night. A staff sergeant on duty in the barracks did nothing to halt the illegal drinking. Glover and Winchell kept away from each other, one soldier said, and there was no overt hostility between them. As midnight drew closer, the keg dribbled dry. Glover began...
...vegan to change your eating habits and positively affect the environment. The amount of meat Americans consume is unhealthy. Maybe in the future we will substitute beans, nuts, vegetables and grains for meat. It will be a fine day when you have bean burgers at the family cookout. SARAH GENTILE Amherst, Mass...
Students, pre-frosh and CityStep kids alike took advantage of Saturday's sunny weather to celebrate Earth Day at a cookout on the MAC Quad sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee...
...Boalt Hall School of Law, where no Latino students and one black student enrolled last year, about 150 students held a walkout to protest the decline in underrepresented minority admits. The students then held a cookout in the afternoon...