Travels with Samantha Slide Show Page 11

by Philip Greenspun

Mostly the bears hang out around Brooks Falls and wait for salmon to try to get upstream.

[BIG] which not all of them do

[BIG] yum, yum

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The worst part is watching the bears eat. When the salmon are running well, they only like to eat the skin and the brains: [BIG] [BIG]

Emma, the most attractive of the "cupcakes" both inside and out, was a 24-year-old Italian-American from Rochester.

[BIG] Upon arrival at the camp, her ambition to learn French over the summer earned her nearly unanimous ridicule. Other staff were afraid that she'd come away with a tangible accomplishment and they'd have to feel like intellectual bums. Whenever I moved Samantha from her charging perch in the lobby--there are no locks in Brooks Camp and nobody thinks twice about leaving thousands of dollars of equipment lying about in a public place--howls of outrage were raised.

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Even Dan Quayle would have been pleased by the strong family values evinced by single mother bears

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