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Like many Harvard students, I have lost a loved one to cancer. My friend died bravely, with her passion for life undimmed. Her lover lent her his shoulder on moonlit "drags" around their hillside farm. He spent sleepless nights in a shared bed, massaging her into brief respites from excruciating pain. They--and all who loved this woman--shared not necrophilia, but its antithesis, a celebration of living that continued until she could live no more...
Teenagers in York County, Pennsylvania, celebrate the Great Sex-Out, a sex- free day to reflect on abstinence. Among activities suggested as alternatives to sex are baking cookies and taking moonlit walks. Since the event was held on a Monday, it wasn't much of a problem. But Friday, said one student, "that would be harder...
...fiery, Jupiter-bright object that flashed across moonlit skies from Florida to New York early last Thursday morning was neither star nor planet nor UFO. It was the space shuttle Discovery putting on a spectacular light show on its way into orbit for eight days of atmospheric research. The successful -- at last! -- launch was a big relief for NASA. Two days earlier, Discovery's countdown was halted 11 seconds before lift-off because of a faulty computer circuit. Two weeks before that miscue, a mission by sister shuttle Columbia was scrubbed just three seconds before launch, after a valve...
...other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those of fallen pack ponies are visible along the eerie moonlit trail; spring will reveal the rest...
Raves can, and do, happen almost anywhere -- on moonlit beaches, in empty warehouses and in open fields -- thanks to an underground networking system < and mobile electric generators that use telephones, flyers and maps to get the word out with as little as 24 hours' notice. Like the hit-and-run "outlaw" parties that took place in Los Angeles and New York during the mid-'80s, raves are often illegal affairs that operate one step ahead of the authorities...