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Newbies in the know, however, can rent equipment from REI, EMS, locally owned camping stores or Lowergear.com which ships via UPS. As for comfort, outdoor stores are catering to first timers by stocking items like queen-size inflatable beds with a pump that plugs into a car's DC outlet. Modern family camping "isn't a canvas tent, mosquito bites, a cot and rain dripping on your head," says Ted Manning, EMS's general merchandise manager. Stores today have everything from self-inflatable pillows ($17-$40) to collapsible marshmallow-roasting sticks...
History's most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp. Ancient historians chronicled the act, Shakespeare dramatized it, and HBO even added its own to spin to the tragedy with the lavish TV series "Rome." Yet while we may know how Cleopatra died of snake poison, after her consort Mark Antony fell on his sword, archaeologists have yet to pin down where the legendary couple was laid to rest...
...have you heard the one about the archaeologist who discovered a drag queen? It’s hirsterical...
...drag queen and an archaeologist walk into a bar. Literally...
...just the sentencing of a journalist to eight years in prison that strikes many American observers as inherently unfair. It's hard to imagine someone with a less mysterious resume than Saberi. Before working for NPR, the BBC and various American broadcast television stations, she was a beauty queen from North Dakota and a former Miss America contestant. A woman with bikini photos of herself on the Internet is an unlikely choice for the CIA to send on covert operations to a conservative Islamic country where women have to wear head scarves in public. (See pictures of the health care...