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...were reading, with the dog on the floor between us, curled up upon himself like a chambered nautilus. The air cracked and the room flashed white. Lightning, firing in through the phone line, exploded around us like gas from the stove when the pilot light malfunctions...
...with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade Europe yourself...
...facilities are few and far between. But for those willing to carry their own gear, the treks are among the most beautiful in Asia. The top hikes in Taiwan?on Chilai Ridge and Yushan?require a reasonable level of fitness and the proper equipment, including a tent and stove, food and water, a sleeping bag, good boots and warm clothes...
...country does indeed waste energy. But it's not the family that uses their stove to cook food, their furnace to heat the house, and their washer and dryer to clean clothes that should suffer because of that. Sometimes we can't simply close our eyes and hope that Adam Smith's magical, invisible hand will come and sweep away our problems. We're going to have to change our attitudes towards energy and the environment in general, but unfettered capitalism is not the way to achieve that change. The solution to the energy crisis lies in our ability...
This weekend, I have had the sudden fortune of housesitting for the father of a friend of mine, who lives in a cozy yellow house off Brattle Street. Somewhere in between the endless cups of tea made on a real stove and the nth great circle around the block with the resident director of security, Livingstone, I began to ask myself what it was I enjoyed so much about houses. What could dorms possibly lack...