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...BERNARD L. PARHARM CRIMSON STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, Harvard radio was a hip-hop Mecca. This past semester, a handful of students tried to bring back the glory. During the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the WHRB hip-hop department—known as “The Dark Side”—hosted “Street Beat,” one of college radio’s seminal rap programs. The show also spawned a campus newsletter by the same name, which later became one of the premier journals of hip hop culture...
...Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river's new activities, but no doubt he'd wholly approve of the spirit of adventure that informs them...
...handmade bamboo ladders that punctuate the rock face along the way. Bangs remembers the pioneering days of the late '70s when he struggled to convince expatriates and local hoteliers that the Zambezi was navigable: "It is hard to believe that the Zambezi has now become an adventure-sports Mecca." Livingstone might be surprised at the river's new activities, but no doubt he'd wholly approve of the spirit of adventure that informs them...
...Cairo. The city's symbol, the Mole Antonelliana, a dome-plus-spire built in 1889 as part of a synagogue, now houses a fun cinema museum. Even Fiat's onetime central auto factory, the Lingotto, has been converted by architect Renzo Piano into a spiffy cultural and consumer mecca that includes an Agnelli art museum, a theater, a shopping mall and a five-star hotel. The Games have gone a long way toward updating Torino's Baroque-era cityscape with a new subway system, colorful Olympic housing that breaks with the predominant gray, and a scattering of shiny new sports...
...Pilgrims killed last week near Mecca in a stampede at the annual hajj, which drew 2.5 million faithful to Islam's holiest city...