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...pool on Monday and Wednesday, with his longest swim on Friday, which started out at 8,000 m and increased to 22,400 m, just shy of 14 miles. To train for the cold water, Brunstad took cold showers all winter and swam in Long Island Sound. When the sound got too warm, he rented a cottage in Brunswick, Maine, where he would swim in the open water for up to eight hours at a stretch...
...Tell that to those still planning their winter vacations. Locals in Phuket, from hawkers to hotel managers, say tourists, spooked by the thought of a vacation in a disaster zone, have avoided the holiday mecca. Beaches crowded before Christmas with several thousand sun worshippers?and whose euros and dollars and renminbi directly or indirectly support 70% of the local population?now play host to just a few hundred. Hotel occupancy has plummeted from the usual 90% to just 10-15%. International carriers?including Thai Airways?have canceled some direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend...
...biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knockoff Birkin bags. Now add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much-vaunted cousin, Tuber melanosporum, or the P?rigord truffle, a gastronomic delicacy that perks up winter menus with its earthy pungency. One taste, though, clears up any confusion: the Chinese variety is insipid compared with the French one. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as P?rigord's black diamonds. The deception...
BOSTON—If you looked at a program for yesterday’s C.R.A.S.H.-B’s indoor rowing competition, which displays headlines such as “I Was Bigfoot’s Erg Slave” and “Puce is the Hot Winter Color,” you might have thought that the event was a joke. But while the program emphasizes the event’s fun spirit, don’t let it fool you: the competition is fierce and attracts the best rowers in the world...
...Hwang ’08 started a group dubbed The Transit Club on thefacebook.com over winter break dedicated to finding quirky and unique places to visit in the Boston area and beyond. The club took its first two trips this weekend, and although only Hwang’s roommate and one other member turned out for the excursions, the group has 50 online members and its founder says he hopes the idea will catch...