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...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...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Bloodsuckers | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Get Wet in Boston And Beyond | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Get Wet in Boston And Beyond | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

EVER SINCE I decided to stay in Cambridge for Commencement, my family has been pushing "home" as some kind of getaway-from-it-all, rest-and-relaxation, bed-and-breakfast resort. And it sounds pretty good right about...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Hotel Nebraska | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

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