Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players will be needed for Harvard to endure the team's tough spring schedule, highlighted by a murderous stretch of three conference games in four days, all on the road. The road trip will begin with a match at Navy on April 16. The team will then travel to the rolling hills of West Virginia to face the Mountaineers on April 18 and will return to civilization (if New Jersey can be called that) to face the Princeton Tigers...
...team will travel to California over spring break to face some intense competition in order to prepare them for ECAC play and beyond. (West Coast tennis is to East Coast tennis as Pete Sampras is to Ramesh Krishnan...
Last year 23 Japanese traveling abroad met crime-related deaths. This year Griptone, a Japanese travel-goods company, has opened a store in Osaka, Japan, for the safety-conscious Japanese tourist. Merchandise includes an attache case that gives thieves within 170 ft. a 40-volt electric shock, and safety vests ranging from ice-pick proof to bulletproof. Americans visiting Osaka from New York City might want to pick up a few Griptone products for when they get home...
MICHAEL KELLY'S DEFT, IMPRESSIONISTIC reporting in MARTYRS' DAY (Random House; $23) of a journey around the Gulf War's edges is a useful reminder of what went on. Just before the shooting started, his travelogue of Baghdad ("unusually ugly lampposts") has the flip quality of a travel piece. In Amman, Jordan, violently pro-Saddam, the streets "hummed with a mean joy. At last somebody was killing Jews." In Tel Aviv, he discovers women who deck their gas-mask kits in velvet. After the 100-hour land war, incinerated Iraqi corpses burn off the vapors of his irony; in liberated...
Students who want really warm weather. er, though, might have the most success heading for their local travel agent and booking a trip south for spring break...