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...Europe the only place to go. Bored with running around the Central Park Reservoir in Manhattan? For $2,345, jaded joggers can fly from New York's Kennedy Airport to Peking on April 26 and then join in a 10-km run to the Great Wall. Just want to get away from it all? For $1,264, Chile's Ladeco airline periodically flies tourists from Santiago to Punta Arenas on the Strait of Magel...
Some Washington mystics have attributed this uncharacteristic intransigence on the Nicaraguan problem to the extra voices Reagan heeds when the issue is Central America. Two months back in The New Republic, a white House aide told Carl Bernstein that the President has a stable of wily Svengalis--"His reservoir of right-wing friends and contacts from the old days"--urging him rightward into Nicaragua. "He can be his own worst enemy, particularly when he gets some hare-brained ideas from reading right-wing garbage," the aide told Berstein. "A lot of times that's when the trouble starts...
...little child in each of us would kill any person who infringed our slightest right," argues Rex Beaber, a clinical psychologist at UCLA. "A reservoir of rage exists in each person, waiting to burst out. We fantasize about killing or humiliating our boss or the guy who took our parking space. It is only by growing up in a civilized society of law that we learn the idea of proportionate response...
Into coming and hiking? Forget tourist-clotted Rocky Mountain Park. Instead, head south on Route 135 out of skitown Crested Buite. Go left at Almont, past Taylor Park Reservoir. At the lake, go right. A bumpy seven-mile dirt road brings you through a glade into Tin Cup. Yes, that is its name. A half-doezen log cabins nestle at the Western foot of the Sawatch Range. There's an ice-cold brook to drink from, and miles of meadows and mountain trails to explore...
...said that he later found out that the village had been abandoned after the government flooded its fields to make a reservoir. Jebsen added he was told that a hippie commune had taken over the village, but while he was there...