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It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Unless you’re alive. Holiday shopping can leave even the hardiest of troopers feeling nauseated, overwhelmed by the hordes of shoppers looking for festive bargains. Fortunately, there’s another way to feel queasy while holiday shopping this December: Just duck into any one of the Boston area’s three Cheesecake Factories...
Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., is the cheapest, party-hardiest hostel around. The friendly, eccentric owner is willing to chat with any traveler, because he is a pedophile. Rock-climbing tours leave every day from the main desk at 9am. The premises are generally safe, but watch for the occasional pickpocket or questionably legitimate Third World head of state spending half of his or their annual budget to bring a giant entourage to the neighboring William “John F.” Kennedy School of Government. (864-1200; fax 864-5715; $25 for dorms, $35 for singles; prices...
...become a running joke—one of the hardiest generated by the torrent of gallows humor that followed Sept...
...here on the frontier, only the hardiest survive. And Paramount Academy is both figuratively and literally on the frontier. The school operates out of a handful of trailers at the edge of a cookie-cutter housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down...
Nobody wants to leave the planet a red, barren dust bowl like Mars, incapable of sustaining any life except the hardiest surviving lineages. But unless we anticipate the impact of technologies--before they are practical--it will be impossible for us to apply them thoughtfully, fruitfully and respectfully, or to ensure the survival of our species within the gift of life on earth...