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Another U.S.-oriented cruise operator, the Delta Queen Steamboat Co., offers theme trips along the Mississippi River in paddle-wheel steamers. A Civil War cruise, complete with daily lectures, panel discussions by historians and visits to famous battle sites, attracted Rosalind and Ted Tedards of Greenville, S.C., in July 2000. Rosalind, 56, a homemaker, has been a Civil War buff for 30 years and owns hundreds of books on the subject. The eight-day cruise cost $5,500, and the Tedardses will never forget it. They still keep in touch with some of the guest historians they...
...began with the hamsters. Lovester and Annie, two female hamsters in a little cage above the bathroom heater. We gave them a wheel, balls, and all the dining hall carrots they could eat. All was well until the day eight baby hamsters mysteriously appeared in our bathroom. Annie was a boy. We responded with a week of ogling the babies, and then sold all but one back to Petco, along with Annie. We thought we had the situation under control...
...Vandalism and violence were not just freedom's product; they were its proof. You know it is a new world when you can slap your shoes on the tyrant's face, spit on it and slash it, when you can break a window and steal a chair, wheel a refrigerator away on roller skates, drive down the wrong side of the street--all conduct unthinkable just 24 hours before or at any time during the 8,000-day reign of Saddam Hussein, which has finally come...
...highlight of the evening, suited members of the “Compassionate Conservative Authority” approached the audience and asked them, in heavy Southern drawls, to complete questionnaires about their activities. The participants were photographed and invited to spin the wheel on the “Terrorist Slot Machine,” a video pop-up with “Slots for Security.” As the suits clapped and cheered, “Let’s catch a terrorist,” three photographs lined up on the screen—in this game, three...
...tradition, advising, specific courses—and in addition, having a concentration legitimizes a field of study, allowing professors to define approaches and methods rather than forcing students to do so. Year after year, special concentrators in architecture and urban studies are effectively asked to reinvent the wheel...