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Sure, you can send mail to Stanford. But remember, Stanford is in a different time zone, so you have to amplify stuff for your pen-pal by writing clarifications like "Last night I went to dinner at a keen restaurant (that's late afternoon, your time), blah blah blah" and avoid all references to earthquakes...
...Turner is pen-pals with Richard Nixon...
...pen where Moses and his family kept their goats at night was covered with a grid of heavy wire. When a visitor wondered about it, Moses explained, "Leopard comes at night to take the goat." Around every Masai enk'ang is built a sturdy fence of thorn and cedar to keep the lions out. One day, walking in the forest, Moses shouldered an enormous slab of cedar to add to his boma. "The lion makes me do a lot of work," he remarked. Sometimes the barricades do not hold, and the Masai wake to the bawl and crashing of cattle...
...woke up at the same time, screaming and fighting the leopard," Joseph said. "We both roared like the leopard, and then the whole boma woke up screaming" -- shouting about the leopard the boys had seen -- but had seen only in their dreams. And in the morning, by the goats' pen, the people found leopard tracks. "You know," said Joseph thoughtfully. "There are scary animals. And they eat people. Sometimes people never learn to be brave, and even as old men, they are still afraid...
...Philadelphia, whose city fathers hope to attract millions of tourists for the Constitution celebrations, a local planning committee called We the People 200 intends to license mementos including T shirts and reproductions of the pen used by the signers in 1787. Still, the group insists commercialism will be kept to a minimum. "We're not looking to junk it up," says Executive Director of Programming Fred Stein. "We don't have an official toilet seat, nor will...