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...Patagonia: On a nine-day Chilean excursion with Bio Bio Expeditions, you decide how much time you want to spend fishing, swimming and horseback riding. Or just hang out at the Rio Azul valley base camp, with two riverside hot tubs, sauna and masseuse. Admire the view from Base Camp Sunset Bar after whitewater rafting and fly fishing. Bio Bio calls it "the perfect way to get away from the chills of winter and enjoy the warm Chilean sun." $2,600 per person. tel: (1-800) 246 7238; www.bbxrafting.com...
There are other problems. Volatile times make for less accurate polling. The wizards base their model electorates, inevitably, on who voted last time. Earth-shattering events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq could yield a substantially different electorate in 2004, but no one knows whether that means, for instance, that there will be a surge of military-draft-fearing 18-to24-year-olds coming out to vote this year. The subject of Iraq, in itself, has to be hard to poll; people are torn among their loyalty to the troops, their lack of knowledge about...
...call comes shortly before noon: Insurgents toting AK-47s and RPGs have ambushed a Marine patrol in Ramadi, wounding two soldiers. At Combat Outpost, a dusty, sun-baked base that houses two companies of the 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, the Quick Reaction Force mounts up. Moments later, a convoy of armored Humvees, seven-ton trucks and reinforced high-backed personnel carriers tears into the streets of the long-restive town...
...picking up the phone (and shelling out the cash). Here are some leading operators. Patagonia: On a nine-day Chilean excursion with Bio Bio Expeditions, you decide how much time you want to spend fishing, swimming and horseback riding. Or just hang out at the Rio Azul valley base camp, with two riverside hot tubs, sauna and masseuse. Admire the view from Base Camp Sunset Bar after whitewater rafting and fly fishing. Bio Bio calls it "the perfect way to get away from the chills of winter and enjoy the warm Chilean sun." $2,600 per person...
...positions on a given issue, and the frequency of his drastic alterations, should be serious causes for concern among two different groups for two different reasons. Kerry supporters should be worried about the election. When a race is close and comes down to undecideds and voter turnout among the base, a candidate with Kerry’s scattered record should beware. When undecideds consider the candidates a toss-up on the issues, they often decide based on who they like, trust and know. Kerry has trouble in all three areas. He will also have trouble motivating his base?...