Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson will travel down to William and Mary for two days, playing exhibition games against a host of colleges as well as the U.S. National team (see related story). It will be Harvard's first experience against other teams and in full-strength scrimmages...
Economic progress has propelled once unthinkable social changes. The strict, monochromatic way of living has yielded to a stunning variety of colorful life-styles. Big Brother is no longer a pervasive presence. People are free to wear what they want, work where they want, live where they want, travel where they want. They enjoy vastly greater access to information of all sorts. They can choose whom to marry and when to divorce--though a couple may still have only one child. They may air their views, gripe and disagree with one another or the authorities--as long as they...
...passenger of spirit is bound to be insulted by the rituals required for air travel. "Did you pack your own bags?" they demand to know at the ticket counter. Well, who do they think packed them--some courier for Hamas who moonlights as my lady-in-waiting...
...childhood wanderers desperate to avoid adulthood. Garland's characters are young European and American backpackers who circle like dead leaves in an eddy through the guesthouses of Southeast Asia: this month Lombok, next week or next month or in another life, Loh Liang or Zanskar. Garland writes as they travel, without emotion or opinion or allegiance. His narrator is an affectless young Englishman named Richard, who, in Thailand, comes upon a hand-drawn map that seems to locate a dimly-rumored and supposedly unreachable island beach unknown to tourists or authorities. With a young French couple, flaccid Etienne and wanly...
...start-up costs, and then wait an estimated three years for stations to get their equipment in working order to pick up the signal. Another problem: no one seems to know what market, if any, exists for the digital service. For the moment, the bet is on people who travel frequently by car. Even when fully launched, though, digital radio would probably not attract enough customers to wipe out local stations, the FCC says. One possible reason: the end of free radio. Like cable TV, digital radio comes at a price, currently projected at between $5 and $10 per month...