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...READ WITH SOME AMUSEMENT YOUR special issue on cyberspace, the Internet and a brave new world [Spring 1995]. Then I took a walk by Salt Pond and Nauset Marsh, and as I watched a pair of Canada geese and a great blue heron, I wondered if nature writer Henry Beston would have spent a year on the Great Beach had he been hooked by cybermania. Who in the information age will have time to contemplate the changing seasons, the beauty of nature, the rhythms of our world while plugged into an artificial electronic world...
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Moreover, December exams would mean we'll all have to come back to school in mid-August, when the Square is still infested with teenage skinheads pretending to be alienated, and humidity covers Cambridge like Reynolds Wrap. Who wants that extra time off in May? Nauset is still covered with ice. Morgan Stanley hasn't started its summer intern program yet. I'd rather go back to school in clear, crisp September, after enjoying the warm waters of Cape Cod Bay for two extra weeks with nary a tourist from Woosta to disturb...
...willing to give you up to 375 colones to the dollar instead of the official rate of 250 colones; and the Pacific beaches along Costa Del Sol--with its gnarly surfing at La Libertdad--and Barra de Santiago to the South of San Salvador put Lauderdale and Nauset to shame...
Good eating is always more than just good food; the same food tastes different on Nauset Beach than in the Freshman Union. In its desire to process huge numbers of diners, Boston's Mama Leone's has lost any sense of intimacy and family that still lingers in the New York restaurant and supplemented it with large, noisy, open, plain dining rooms more reminiscent of the Greyhound Bus Station than Sunday dinner at the D'Arminio's. Thankfully, no attempt was made to make a month-old building look 100 years old by using plastic bricks, fiberglass rustic beams...