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Self-described serious-minded people may laugh at all this. Particularly strange is a widely circulated photo of a young man on the World Trade Center observation deck, a plane looming just yards behind and below him. It has clearly been manipulated (the man is wearing a parka and ski hat on what was an 81[degrees] day, plus the observation deck wasn't open yet on the morning of Sept. 11). Still, people have latched onto it, even creating a backstory that the camera was found in the rubble. "To you and me, that fellow standing on the observation...
Whether lugging the futon from Central Square to the Quad, taking February road trips to Vermont’s ski slopes, or cruising down Mass Ave singing along to Britney, the essential–but oftentimes missing–element in most students’ college adventures is a trusty set of wheels. Zipcar.com, a web-based company that offers an alternative to traditional car-rental services, has travelled from its hub in Europe to set up shop in our very own Porter Square (growing center of international trade and world commerce...
...Snow Place Like Home” stars a hotel owner, Bill Igerant, who decides to hold a beauty pageant at his Catskills ski resort—where tabloid reporter Diane Comebacktolife is promptly murdered...
...airports as it is - but with the global economy staring down the tarmac at a U.S.-led synchronized recession, the clock is ticking. As long as half as many fights are taking off with half as many passengers, nobody is making money - not airlines, not hotels, not casinos, not ski lodges or golf resorts. And how long can the American Way get by on pizza and a movie...
...Airlines sold off, along with aerospace manufacturers and anything to do with traveling and play - casinos, hotels, ski-resort owners, golf-club makers. Insurance companies sold off. Entertainment stocks sold off, as if the national mood would keep people away from the movies (that one may be temporary). And defense stocks and gold-mining companies had a pretty good day. Basically, it all made sense, and it could have been a lot worse, and in this uncharted territory it was an outcome that had a lot of people breathing big sighs of relief...