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After a night in Kratie (there are several basic hotels, all less than $10), it's seven hours to Stung Treng. An American visitor in the 1920s described the town as "a savage little poem," and there is little to see. But you must stop to obtain permission to cross the border, either from the immigration office ($1) or the Sekong Hotel ($20, but hassle-free). The last three hours to the border are by outboard-powered dug-out. The going is slow but the pace affords fine views of the delta at its most pristine. The thick jungle harbors...
...fact, this theory is wrong not just about the cause of inflation, but even about the timing. Grades have gone up at Harvard. But they have been going up as far back as I have been able to get grading data, all the way back to the 1920s. The accompanying chart shows the percentage of the class in “Dean’s List”—Groups I, II and III together, a reasonable measure of overall grading standards. Most of these data are taken from the annual reports of the president and the deans...
...look slightly less conspicuous standing on Piccadilly trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face. It's the second recent hit for Hermès, which has been making straps since the 1920s. In 1999 a double wrap strap became a fetish for fashion editors. A new version will debut this fall...
...cosmological term"--was required to make the predictions of general relativity match what astronomers believed the actual universe looked like. And that extra term marred the mathematical elegance of his beloved equations. The great physicist was hugely relieved when the discovery of the expanding universe in the 1920s let him cross out what he declared was "my greatest blunder...
...lost as a result of the birth of the huge industries that developed around oil, telephones, movies, automobiles, airplanes, semiconductors and personal computers. Working with young companies can be dangerous for anyone. It doesn't matter whether that was in Akron, Ohio, in the 1870s, Detroit in the 1920s or Santa Clara, Calif., in the 1990s...