Word: tripping
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...finally tired of bars, and the serenity of camping bores you., then call Pa Legal at Wanderlust Adventures (303-484-1219) to sign up for a whitewater raft trip. Following Route 40 west in Northern Colorado, turn onto Route 318 at Maybell. A spectacular drive down the vermillion bluff will lead you to The Gates of Ledore, huge rocks, and your dock on the Green River. You'll spend three days with eagles and sheep and enough sleepers and rapids to make you happy to get back to the safety of Cambridge. Not only is Legal an expert raftsman...
...began quietly acquiring stock last October. From then until mid-February, he paid nearly $600 million for 13.8 million shares, pushing the stock's price from about $36 to $48. Returning to Amarillo on Feb. 14 aboard his company's ten-passenger Falcon 50 jet after a business trip to New York City, Pickens phoned Mesa's headquarters to find out whether it had sent word of the purchases to the New York Stock Exchange, as planned. When he found that the announcement had gone, Pickens jubilantly turned to a passenger and announced: "Well, it's public knowledge...
...next day officials gave a rosier account of Schroeder's condition. They announced that his fever was subsiding and that he might be allowed to attend his son's wedding on March 16. They released photos showing Schroeder waving to Haydon. Schroeder was also treated to his first trip outdoors: a brief excursion to the hospital parking lot, from which he could glimpse the "transitional care" apartment building where he will live if he leaves the hospital. Two children rushed over to greet the famous patient. "It was like shaking hands with history," said Kim Nasief, 10, but she added...
...believes the parched and partly torn pages, dated in the late 1790's by a British diplomat. Lord Macartney, are the preliminary notes of Macartney's visit to China in the late 18th century. A full manuscript about the trip was eventually published...
Macartney's trip was the first British effort to form political relations with the Far Eastern nation. The diplomat was sent to China by King George III of England in 1792, according to the latest issue of a Harvard Library newsletter which reports Lum's find...