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...into my uncle’s 1-year-old BMW. I was sitting in the front next to my uncle. We [went] as fast as my uncle deemed possible, which at times included over 80 miles per hour on the mountain roads. About 15 minutes into our drive, my uncle asked my friend, “Is there anything by your feet?” [He] reached back and pulled out a handgun...
...music on the loudspeakers? Yeah, got that. Families playing peek-a-boo with their kids over menus? That, too. It was a typical Lebanese scene and one that would be instantly recognizable in, say, northern California. It was easy to forget that just a few miles down the mountain roads, people could suffer an Israeli air strike at any minute - in fact, if there had been any bombings, we would have had a great view...
...TITAN TENT Sales of big car-camping tents are up 117% over the past three years. The new three-person, two-door Mutha Hubba, $380 from Mountain Safety Research, is both spacious (3.7 sq m of floor space) and lightweight (around 3 kilos...
...attacking ports and running blockades, the only way out of the country is by land through Syria. Fleets of taxis carried hotel guests on the three-hour trip to Damascus until an air strike knocked out a key bridge. Now cars have to take back roads through the high mountain passes or head north up the coast road toward the Syrian city of Homs. Given the conditions on the roads, staying in Beirut while the bombs fall is as good an option as trying to make a run for it. "You share your bed with a Lebanese girl?" a staff...
Stephen T. Curwood ’69—host of NPR’s “Living on Earth”—moderated the forum, which was sponsored by the Sierra Club, Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, the Environmental League of Massachusetts, and the Appalachian Mountain Club...