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Michael and Dayna Boudreau's farm in Danville, Vt., was failing. But rather than move to the city, they found a new livelihood by helping people get lost: they turned their cornfield into a maze. Now the attraction is earning almost as much money as their 200-cow dairy business once did. Cornfield mazes like theirs are cropping up everywhere. In North Carolina there's a Haunted Cornfield maze; in Camarillo, Calif., the Amazing Maize Maze. There are cowboy mazes in Colorado, crawfish mazes in Louisiana and Halloween mazes in almost every state. With an average admission cost...
...simple. At times like these distance, and not direction, is my downfall. I find it nearly impossible to walk purposely past telescoping rows of books, leaving them all untouched, unread, unopened. (Glimpses of Portuguese periodicals, Byzantine manuscripts, journals of learned societies and "Iron Maze: Western Intelligence v. the Bolsheviks...
...challenge for blankets, personal hygiene supplies and spices (spices?) was won by the juggernaut Kucha tribe ("Thank God we won the reward challenge so we can bathe Kimmi," said Mike.) But a threatened "meltdown by the Colbster" was thankfully avoided when Ogakor outraced Kucha in the rats-in-a-maze immunity challenge. Not a thrilling watch, that. (I still say they should have left behind somebody at each medal, and called them all in, in proper order. But then again, viewers had the aerial camera to help them feel superior...
...have learned that the experience of my friend is all too common. Harvard students faced with an unplanned pregnancy often feel like they have only one option--abortion. While some resources do exist that could be used to help pregnant students, finding them in the maze of Harvard offices and departments is somewhat like a scavenger hunt. And for a student faced with all the stress and emotional turmoil of a crisis pregnancy, the inability to find the financial, academic and residential assistance that she needs may make her feel like she is forced to choose between her child...
...treatments for people who are stressed and having trouble sleeping, according to Rosenthal, is to let them walk through a room-sized maze. One such maze is set up at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston...