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...with the climbing wall at your local indoor sports center? Then make haste for the village of Yangshuo, in China's Guangxi province. With its undulating fairy-tale peaks, snaking rivers and emerald rice paddies, there can be few finer places to dangle from the end of a nylon rope?and that's why Yangshuo is fast emerging as China's rock-climbing capital. You don't have to be Spider-Man either: local operators now cater to everyone from school kids to corporate groups...
Compared to the antics of the Jerky Boys, such a joke is merely the work of amateurs untrained in the finer art of prank calling. The Jerky Boys—John G. Brennan (aka Johnny B.) and Kamal (Ahmed)—have perfected crank calling into an art. Unfortunately, it does not necessarily follow that this art belies either good taste or talent. This Grammy-nominated duo’s latest release, The Ultimate Jerky Boys Collection, is their third compilation, a two-disc set consisting of fifty-one of their supposed best recordings of prank calls...
Absent of reform from within the clubs, outside groups are stepping up to offer alternatives to a weekend browsing Mt. Auburn St.’s finer facilities...
While the Pompeii layer preserved natural body postures, it was too coarse to take imprints of soft tissues and delicate structures, so there's no way of knowing whether Mei long had feathers. But other strata of the Liaoning fossil beds are much finer grained. That's where paleontologists found the feathered tyrannosaur, which Xu and Norell named Dilong paradoxus ("surprising emperor dragon"). It's one of the oldest known tyrannosaurs, and one of the emu-size specimens has unmistakable traces of primitive feathers on its tail and jaw. Those filaments, which are about three-quarters of an inch long...
...even officially on campus—they are not recognized by the University and their property is held by their own trusts. They’re not big on affirmative action or gender equality and are generally derided as, at best, places where you can discuss the finer points of tweeds, cigars and sherry. At their worst they are described as places that are simply not safe if you like your sex consensual...