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...world's largest movie conference, the Cannes Film Festival, are in their seats for the morning's major screening by 8:15. Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want to be part of both scenes, figure, hey, they'll sleep when they...
...dangerous than most, and destroying them won't prevent future attacks. Officials say the best ways to avoid becoming dinner for an alligator are not to feed the animals, which can lead them to lose their natural wariness; to stay away from the water's edge at dusk and dawn, when the creatures tend to hunt; and to be generally wary in and around the water. "A little gator common sense," says state-certified trapper Todd Hardwick, "takes you a long...
...moms who take up their kids' sports with the right attitude, the rewards can be long lasting. Gail Silberstein, an attorney in Newton, Mass., started rowing when her daughters did in eighth and ninth grades. Now the girls are off at college, but many a dawn finds their 50-year-old mother sculling down the Charles, gliding past leafy shores busy with wildlife. "I never would have found this," she says, "if my kids hadn't shown...
Champagne, strawberries, and formal wear at dawn might not seem like the most standard way to start a day, but tradition trumps practicality for Lowell House residents every year on the first of May. Early yesterday morning, a few dozen tuxedo- and gown-clad Lowell students congregated for the house’s annual May Day Waltz. For over 30 years, according to participants, Lowellians have gathered at 6 a.m. on Weeks Footbridge to watch local residents mark the festivities along the banks of the Charles River. House Committee Chairs Julia M. Chandler ’07 and Jonathan...
...city would consider mandatory evacuations for ?anything above a category 2? storm and ?definitely for a category 3.? Katrina was a category 3 hurricane when it made landfall. Nagin said the city would not forcibly remove residents from their homes, but that police would enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the aftermath of a hurricane. To encourage more people to evacuate, the emergency plan makes provisions to help evacuate pets on the same buses used to evacuate residents, provided their owners have cages for them. Many people stayed behind during Katrina because they refused to abandon their pets...