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...Utah Olympic Park (435-658-4200), where all the sliding sports and Nordic jumping took place, you can hop into a bobsled with a driver and hit the curves at 80 m.p.h. and 4 Gs (the equivalent of a 40-story drop in less than a minute). "I could feel my contact lenses slipping down my eyes," says track-maintenance-crew member Alan Powell of his first bobsled ride. Or join up for a program at the park's ski jumps, among the highest-altitude ramps in the world. In the summer, ice is traded for wheels on bobsleds...
...Finally, after three hours, the motor kicks over and the truck starts rolling north again. Roughly three days later they cross into Libyan territory. A few hundred kilometers later - and after 10 days in the truck - the driver brakes to a halt and tells the Somalis to hop off the back. One of the smugglers points north toward a distant, green landscape: "There is Kufra," he says, the oasis outpost in southern Libya. For more than an hour, the Somalis walk along an unpaved road toward what Abdi Salan fears is nothing more than a mirage. FROM KUFRA TO ZLITAN...
...cover, motherfuckers.” Thus does Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott introduce her latest album, This Is Not A Test. The album is packed predictably full of boasts about outclassing every other hip-hop artist, but less predictably there may be something to the boasts. For their fifth album together, Missy Elliott and Timbaland have stripped their sound down to what might be called its bare bones, if it didn’t sound so funky and rich. The four best tracks on the album reduce hip-hop to its bare necessities: head-bouncing beats...
...ballads are almost always her weakest points, so these are not huge losses, and Jay-Z’s guest spot on “Wake Up” is discharged with the appropriate skill and brevity. Missy is still possibly the most exciting mainstream hip-hop artist around, even if she can’t quite sustain it over an entire album...
...aptly titled Veritas Records Compilation Volume 1, features cuts from Harvard favorites like hip-hop group the Justice League, indie rock bands the States and the Half-Nelsons, Kyle E. Nasser ’05 and his jazz ensemble, Veritas President Dan J. Zaccagnino ’05, who plays acoustic rock, and several others...