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...meantime, there's dinner - massive steaks, potatoes and salad - and beer, which comes in 5 liter Heineken mini-kegs. Jimi Hendrix and Dr. Dre are playing on the stereo in the main dome. NEEM has no shortage of grad students like Trevor Popp, who describes himself as "34 going on 12," and they know how to have fun. Don't get me wrong. Ice-core science is all hard work - especially the painstaking analysis of the ice cores back in the lab - but only a certain kind of scientist chooses to spend weeks on an isolated...
After a series of post-dinner presentations, we drink whiskey cooled by ice cubes cut from some of the spare cores, dating back to 1816 exactly. One by one we head off to our assigned sleeping tents, bunk bags and bags, where the air is only a little warmer than it would be outside. I suppose my body clock has caught up with wherever I am, because I fall asleep immediately, and deeply. I wake up once in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and stagger outside, shivering. It's 2 a.m., and the sun is bright...
...Visitors are welcome at Jari Menari. Fully trained therapists offer four kinds of massage - starting at a bargain $15.90 - and there are massage-and-meal packages (one, the Tuesday Supper Club, features a 90-minute massage followed by dinner at Stein's villa for $100). There is also a daylong class for visitors that includes tuition, some yoga, lunch and a 90-minute knead at the end of the day - all for $170. For more information, see www.jarimenari.com...
Obama the Centrist By shifting to the center, Barack Obama is practicing a unique, diplomatic solution: compromise [July 21]. As a not-quite-17-year-old daughter of a Republican father and a very left-wing Democratic mother, I feel that our unorthodox political arguments around the dinner table - in which I declare both parents absurd - have given me an unusual understanding of centrist politics. Compromise doesn't necessarily mean compromising one's personal values but rather accepting there is another point of view and sometimes adapting it. Maybe, just maybe, Obama is simply a reasonable guy able to change...
...induced hearing loss at 28 years old. We asked a few pointed questions about when he was having difficulty understanding people, and his response was classic. "When I'm sitting at home with the TV off, I can understand just fine," he said, "but when I go out for dinner, I have trouble...