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Have you ever felt compelled to leave the crowded, industrial Northeast Corridor and head for a place where the buffalo roam? Try the Best Western Bucks T-4 Lodge in Big Sky, Mont., at (406) 995-4111, where 20 percent of summer employees are college students. You can earn a whopping $6 an hour by staffing the front desk. Yet the cost of living is cheap; you can get room and board for $45 a week, and have time for plenty of pleasure reading...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Finding Summer Employment Is A Difficult Task | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

...31st," said Curtis Cleven, launch operations manager. If successful, the craft will be the first-ever inter-planetary rover, slated to land on July 4, 1997. Several hours after Pathfinder parachutes down, the petals on the spacecraft will unfold; a six-wheeled, 23-pound rover will come out to roam the Martian surface, examining rocks and beaming back data. The launch has been tentatively rescheduled for Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Scrubs Mars Launch | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

...labyrinthine structure and aisles lit by naked light-bulbs. Last year, I had a professor encourage us as she handed out supplementary reading lists to spend some time every once in a while browsing in Widener. Not looking frantically for a book, just letting your eyes roam over the shelves. You'll find things you never expected...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: A Bookworm's Confession | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard, ghosts roam freely, along the paths of Tercentenary Theatre and through the buildings of the Yard. But nowhere are they more present than on the shelves of the Harvard library system, where the words of the ages await your accidental perusal...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: A Bookworm's Confession | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...There is another dimension. It is a place where people change in qualitative ways, where drug dealers roam, seeking to entice the innocent, the naive who arent hip to the games people play. It is a place where the lack of opportunity stares so baldly at passing wanderers that they run away, rushing off to buy illusions, to believe that things aren't really as bad as they seem. It's a place where there has been so little, for so long, that you cannot walk through it without some trace of its shabby residue getting caught on your clothes...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: Raining in Baltimore | 9/28/1996 | See Source »

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