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...mine gold in the world's largest remaining virgin cloud forest, in Costa Rica. Left battles right, state clashes with university, and faculty members pummel one another in front of TV cameras. Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate." None of them think it may be a place of learning. As Smiley notes wryly of one academic, "The well-known reluctance of midwesterners to talk about actual sums of money worked in his favor, since refusal to talk about it made...
...Sunday afternoon, and the fourth floor of the MAC is alive with athletic activity. Among the usual games of pickup basketball, some organized activity draws attention to the far court. The court is made up for volleyball, and 20 or more students are moving through a serving drill in a diligent and orderly fashion. One man stands in the middle of the scene shouting encouragement to the players. These are not the giants of the varsity volleyball team; they are the men and women of Dunster volleyball, an intramural machine fueled by a man with a vision...
...proposed Boston pickup site is KenmoreSquare, but additional spots could includeBrighton St. or Boylston St., Schmitt said. And upto two more Harvard drop-off sites could be addedto the current Quad, Yard and Quincy Houselocations...
Others use the medium as a pickup bar and a place to set up real assignations in the no-tell motels of America. The real cybersex conquistadores employ the networks to seduce distant lovers and keep a kind of score of their ``hits.'' Not everyone who does this is male, by the way. Indeed, recently on America Online, a woman with the handle ``Stolen Kisses'' became the object of many others' fancy after she wrote an article in Penthouse magazine titled ``Confessions of a Cyberslut.'' While it was once the case that women willing to engage in erotic give...
When making an independent move on a relative stranger, remember that pickup lines don't work. Nobody really says things like, "Was your father a thief? I'd like to know just who stole the stars and put them in your eyes...