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...core outdoors enthusiasts still prefer to rough it, but a growing number of families look for comfort first when they head for the hills. As the summer season heats up, car campers are pulling into the nation's parks bearing high-tech tents and other gear to keep the rain away and bugs at bay. Here are some of the cool new tools they're packing Bowled Over This lightweight Orikaso dinnerware travels flat to save space and folds into cups, bowls and plates of various sizes. At a few dollars apiece, they're reusable (and thus environmentally friendly...
...weather is out of the control of Harvard, its accommodations (or lack thereof) were so awful that both my elderly mother and mother-in-law were prevented from attending many of the functions. First, why no tents? Even I knew a week earlier there was going to be rain. When commenting to a Harvard police officer he simply said, “They just don’t do this.” In an east coast city this is not acceptable. Is there not a large gym or facility that could have been used to accommodate those wishing...
...here that I have sat down in my room for a lengthy period of time. Scratch that, this is the first time that I have sat down at all without food or French grammar exercises in front of me. I am going to sit here and listen to the rain for awhile. Then I’ll probably take a walk. Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a literature concentrator in Mather House...
...Operation is called Summer Rain, and it is, one could argue, negotiation by other means - a threatening demonstration that Israel is ready to strike and do whatever is necessary to recover its soldier. Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told CNN that the operation was the result of frustrations built up in recent days that left Israel "without a choice...
...rain forests and squalid towns of Panama were rife with diseases like malaria and yellow fever. As many as 20,000 people died during the French effort to build a canal in the late 1800s. But as a result of his work in Cuba after the Spanish-American War, a tireless American doctor named William Gorgas came to believe strongly in the new discovery that a specific mosquito spread yellow fever. Overcoming doubters, he began a widespread campaign of mosquito eradication and sanitation improvements. The death rate among canal workers plummeted...