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...Tourism," says Henry. "My wife and I travel separately to the same foreign city by different modes of transport, and then try to find each other. We have done it and met six times. The moment we meet is always fantastic." Experimental travel has been slow to take root outside of a small circle of devotees. According to Latourex (or the Laboratory of Experimental Travel, established by Henry), there are currently 1,000 experimental travelers worldwide. But with the publication of the Lonely Planet book - which presents 40 of Henry's best experiments along with a potted history...
...dealing with some questionable government, we will find ourselves on a slippery slope which leads us to divest from any company with a tie to the oil industry. Usually easy media targets will be singled out, which leads to the creation of a sideshow that distracts attention from the root of the problem—the national governments that sanction human rights abuses and corruption...
Pioneered by shortstop Rabbit “Three-Finger” Waddell in the late 1800s, “walk-up music” first took root in the ancient sport of baseball. But without the technological capacity of today’s state-of-the-art venues, Waddell was forced to hum the latest ditties as he “walked up” to the batter?...
...same period in 1984. "It's just not cool to be promiscuous," says Los Angeles Art Director Jeff Kerns. Karl Clark, an activist member of Fort Lauderdale's homosexual community, maintains that most people are "no longer willing to play Russian roulette. Safer sex and monogamous relationships have taken root. Unfortunately, it took a long time...
...drains if it seldom rains, and it scarcely rains in West Texas. Dry lakes have been known to catch fire here. So precious is water that many people loathe lawns; others ostentatiously show their wealth by the look of their grassy places (still others, sensitive to criticism, sneakily install root-system watering devices, eliminating the telltale arc of an aboveground sprinkler). In any event, there were three feet of water standing in some streets of Midland and Odessa the day before the game...