Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risky? Then how about a getaway to the Gaza Strip? Most people think of this section of the Israeli-occupied territories as a wretched, raging refugee camp. But it also offers a gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed...
...concentrates them into miniature hurricanes. Just as you settle down with sandwich and beverage in tow, a foul wind interrupts your incipient feast. Before there is time to anchor your delicious repaste, the sandwich, dripping with honey mustard, has soared from your table, and is making a quick getaway through the outstretched hands of the homeless--who, after all rely on such fortuities to survive...
...cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation. Up the other goes a drop of her victim's blood. In less than a minute, she makes her getaway. She finds a place to rest and digest her vampire's repast, while her victim is left to scratch the welt that soon forms in allergic reaction to her ghoulish drool...
Although Revere and Wollaston are the mostaccessible beaches by subway, a car exponentiallyincreases the number of sunspots accessible tosummer school students. Just a little more mileagegets the getaway-seeking daytripper to severalpleasant beaches...
...Walden, a leisurely walk around Americanliteratures most celebrated getaway is a must.This transcendentally tranquil pond is closed inby trees--lots of them--leaving little room forfrisbee or laying out. Yet the narrow path thatlazily winds around Walden is sufficient forreflective strolls and discussions about civildisobedience...