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...favorite unofficial site for outdoor adventures is gorp.com which features magazine-style articles on topics like "10 Best Adventure Lodges" and "Death Valley's Vital Signs," along with thorough listings for national, state and local parks. I especially like Gorp's Zagat-style ratings of parks and trails (best national park: Glacier in Montana) as well as helpful tips on when to avoid the crowds and the mosquitoes. When the time comes to book a campsite at a state or local park, I head to reserveamerica.com It shows the exact layout of thousands of campgrounds, so that...
...minor poet or two, whose supersecret work on German codes probably shortened the war by months if not years. Their greatest success was in cracking Enigma, the machine-generated numerical language by which the Germans communicated with the submarine wolf packs that preyed on the Atlantic shipping routes vital to Britain's survival...
...that Sacks’ “attentiveness and dedication to the project of poetry—reading it and writing it—is inspiring. I’ve always been impressed by the expansiveness of his mind, his ability to incorporate seemingly divergent poetics into a broader, vital idea of poetry...
...think for a museum to be a vital part of the culture in which it finds itself, it should have a dynamic relationship with that culture. The influence ought to go in both directions. The museum doesn’t need to become like a circus or shopping mall; it doesn’t need to emulate these commercial culture entities in order to justify itself in the world or to attract the numbers of people that keep it alive financially. Now there is a distinction between popular culture and commercial culture. Museums are about slowing people down and changing...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club choose their stage effects to match their music. Wreathed in smoke and dressed in tastefully tattered black, the threesome conjure up a hurricane of sound so dense and vital you would swear they had another guitarist stashed away in the back, hidden behind the smoke machine. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Turner stoically grind out rock the likes of which has been neither seen nor heard for years...