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...that different from those that seize swallows and salmon. And it is now epidemic in the U.S. This year the National Association of Reunion Planners estimates that nearly 30 million of us will defy distance, age and pinched wallets and go home again to high school. Between Easter and Thanksgiving there will be 25,000 high school reunions. That is judged by some demographers to be the biggest institutional movement of people annually within the nation...
...result is Theroux's ninth and possibly best travel book, an observant and frequently hilarious account of a trip that took him to 51 Pacific islands, from New Guinea to Easter Island to Hawaii. His goal was to retrace, in part, the bold voyages of early Polynesian seafarers who gave this vast area a common culture, now corrupt and moribund. Theroux took the big hops by plane or ship. But his preferred mode of travel was a collapsible, 16-ft.-long French-made kayak, which he paddled -- carefully -- through dangerous waters infested by crocodiles, sharks and stinging Portuguese...
SOME HABITS ARE HARD TO BREAK. SENATORS CLAIBORNE PELL and DAVID BOREN, the chairmen of the Foreign Relations and Intelligence committees, have been traveling through Southeast Asia during the Easter-Passover recess on a military C-20B (cost: $2,614 an hour), stopping in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea). Even though commercial flights were available, sources say, one of the reasons for going military was that wives travel free. Boren argues that the spouses were invited by some of the governments to participate in events...
...rent a car to go home for Easter," he said. "The police didn't tell me the name of the guy because they thought I might beat the shit...
Sole said he believed the second ad's timingjust before Easter and Passover was deliberate...