TO YOUR HEALTH : HELP WANTED.Byline: - Daily News Staff and Wire Services To go camping, you need more than what nature can provide. Camping requires equipment - tents, flashlights, backpacks, hiking boots, sleeping bags, rain gear, tarps, cold-weather clothing, canteens and cooking gear.And this gets expensive. So, Adventure 16 Outdoor & Travel Outfitters, a retail store with three locations in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , is asking for donations of new or used camping gear to enable low-income kids to spend time in the great outdoors. The nonprofit program, called Donate-a-Pack, already has provided nearly 1,000 daypacks, backpacks, tents and sleeping bags to 19 organizations in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, that serve low-income children. Margot Andrew, executive director of Camp Laurel - which offers camping trips to children with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. or who have parents with HIV - said the donations made it possible for the kids to go on an overnight hiking trip, where they roasted marshmallows and told stories in the firelight. Adventure 16 Outdoor & Travel Outfitters' San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. location is at 5425 Reseda Blvd., Tarzana. Drop off donated items during business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a . For more information, call (818) 345-4266. Books ``The Soul of Sex,'' by Thomas Moore (HarperCollins; $25) Some might argue that sex is a primary sales tool in an open society for much the same reason that torture is used in oppressive ones: It gets the job done. Moore, however, leaps to the conclusion that sex is troublesome because we crave it in all the wrong ways. In pursuit of that connection, he meanders from Greek myth to Jesus (who was ``intimate, emotional, physically expressive, and even sensuous sen·su·ous adj. 1. Of, relating to, or derived from the senses. 2. Appealing to or gratifying the senses. 3. a. Readily affected through the senses. b. in many ways'') to Marilyn Monroe. It is possible that Moore confounds with genius or writes from a spiritually exalted ex·alt·ed adj. 1. Elevated in rank, character, or status. 2. Lofty; sublime; noble: an exalted dedication to liberty. 3. place, but after two hours we put this one down with the unsatisfied feeling that we had been bombarded with generalizations. |
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