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Rather than tell long and drawn out stories about my first year roommate who loved to study topless, flexing and grunting, and who slept with the window open throughout winter because "it makes me feel like I'm back in Oregon," and who spent hours locked in the bathroom humming show tunes...
...Gilan, 5,000 residents of the town of Roudbar were killed and the settlement was 90% ruined. In Zanjan, the provincial capital was reported to be completely destroyed, along with 54 towns and villages. Most of the victims were buried beneath concrete walls and ceilings as they slept. Aftershocks rippled through the area in the next 36 hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered...
Granted, this role must have been a difficult one for Beatty--a millionare who reportedly has slept with many of Hollywood's most famous women. He must have really had to act play the role of the modest hero. The sheer difficulty of Beatty's trying to fill those shoes probably explains why he fell so flat trying...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology is chock-full of snakeskins, phosphorescent butterflies and stuffed, gap-toothed hippos. It also features the fossilized skeleton of a giant sloth, a prehistoric creature that--like some college students today--slept 22 hours a day and woke only to eat. And for a positively thrilling afternoon you can't miss "Songs of the Spring Warblers," recorded bird-songs accessible by the touch of a button...
...rice and some blankets, they joined thousands of others on foot or bicycle heading south along the Basak River. No one knew where they were marching or why. The troops who rounded them up said only that they would not be gone long from Phnom Penh. At night they slept beside the road. After a few days, the flip-flops Seng and his family were wearing disintegrated, and they had no choice but to go barefoot on the road's blistering macadam. Frequently, Seng would ask if anyone had seen his missing daughters...