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...Thundering across empires to the edge of Asia, the Orient Express was the most celebrated train in history. It retired ignobly in May 1977, aged 94, a shrunken outcast of the hurry-up age. Then, last May, it rose again in all its pristine opulence as a regularly scheduled year-round train luxe, plying between London and Venice. The once and future train is called the Venice Simplon Orient-Express (V.S.O.E.). Among recent passengers on both the south-and northbound runs was TIME Senior Writer Michael Demurest, who once rode the fabled express as a boy. His report...
...some of the 17,000 Lagunatics, as the locals call themselves with a fair degree of accuracy, this trompe l'oeil in reverse is a year-round obsession. With the help of 20 full-time backstage professionals, 500 volunteers put on the nightly exhibitions, which lure 300,000 viewers and will gross $1.8 million this year. The festival distributes $100,000 in art scholarships to Laguna High School graduates...
...case, the end is now perceivable; it is real. "I've put so much into the game year-round for so many years," he says slowly. Even when you're eating. There's a conversation going on ... you don't even hear them talking . . . you're thinking of hitting...
...greatest thing about being here [at Harvard] is that football is not a year-round sport, so I can run track as well," he says. "Of course it helps that both coaches are so understanding...
Outside of competition, though, Johnson isn't nearly so intense. Besides the kidding he regularly takes for having the team's only year-round tan and for having tight muscles--the source of many bad jokes--he has lately been a leader in the infamous "arm-jogger" plot. As soon as they received them from an eager salesman, the team decided the arm-joggers, hand-weights for training, were utterly worthless. So far, two batches have mysteriously disappeared, and Coach McCurdy's resulting investigation has been rather lackadaisical...