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Alaska has a lot of wilderness, which is unsurprising since it’s the westernmost, easternmost, and northernmost state. (We would be the southernmost state, but we’re worried about the implications of this on our language skills.) Given its vast northern wild lands, Alaska also has a lot of glaciers. These help a globally warming Earth to stay cool...
That hulking concrete monstrosity on the easternmost fringe of campus, which I have the dubious distinction of calling home, indeed proffers many unique amenities to its fortunate inhabitants. All students enjoy private bedrooms—hence the much-invoked “Singles for Life” slogan. The upper floors of the high-rise boast panoramas of the Boston skyline. The Soviet-style Brutalist aesthetic endows the courtyard with an ineffable proletariat charm...
...University economics professor who used to tinker at winemaking in his Manhattan apartment. When he left teaching, he bought several acres and started a modest operation, the ultimate mom-and-pop winery of the area. Ternhaven's sign reads LAST WINERY BEFORE FRANCE--bragging rights earned by being the easternmost winery in the state. If you're lucky, you'll get to meet Watts. Ask to see his unusual storage tanks, which are converted dairy vats...
...lines operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from 70 to 80 years; none offer doctors on board...
...took up recreational cycling only a year ago, at age 55, I have gradually increased my endurance, heading out on Saturday and Sunday mornings over the bridges of Manhattan toward beaches and landmarks 20 or more miles away. When the 5BBC announced a century ride to Montauk at the easternmost tip of Long Island in May, my biking buddy Jane and I, with a sense of adventure--and trepidation--mailed in our $52 registration fees for the metric. For beginners like us, the draw of this particular ride is that the route along the southern shore of Long Island...