Word: treks
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Students and residents will no longer be forced to choose between a $25 wild cab ride down the Charles and an 85-cent, hour-long trek on a rainbow of subway lines with suitcases in tow. Finally, the city has cleared the way for the logical, environment-friendly alternative: mass surface transportation to the airport...
...idea that is catching on--and not only among the Bay Area digerati. "By next fall about 85% of our games will have some kind of online capability," says Jeffrey Anderson, director of domestic licensing for Viacom Consumer Products, which is talking to Velocity about building a Star Trek-based MUD. "Everybody recognizes that that's where the money is going...
...dealt me my fate, sending me from Grays East to Pfoho like the first-place New York Yankees exiled Ruben Sierra to the abysmal Detroit Tigers. Many questions crossed my mind: Should I investigate off-campus housing? Should I work out to get in better shape for the daily trek...
...year older and some things never change. The other day, the lure of e-mail compelled me to trek from Mather to the Science Center. Not realizing that the Freshman Mixer had been moved indoors because of the rain, I was soon stuck in a mob of eagerly socializng first-years doing the Electric Slide. Part of me wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, but part of me remembered how fun all this had been. And that's when I realized exactly what sophomore meant...
Moreover, the series recognizes that injustices and cruelties don't invalidate the real feats of courage and enterprise that helped settle the West, from the Mormons' trek to Utah to the building of the first transcontinental railroad. As usual, Burns and Ives use personal stories to humanize large events. We learn, for example, about Charles Goodnight, the Texas rancher who returned from the Civil War, found that cattle prices had plummeted and decided to take his herd north to look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush...