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Sleepaway camp used to be a prolonged gym class with dirtier clothes. The options were basically fat camp or regular. But now there are choices, some odder than others. A cross section of this summer's getaways:

CAMP HUMMER CAMP (1) (Southern Utah)

AGES 13-18

BLURB "You can learn to drive a Hummer (no license required!)"

ACTIVITIES GPS navigation, basic car mechanics, paintball with night-vision scopes

EXTRA BONUS Steven Spielberg's son is enrolled and, for the first time, a girl

MATHCAMP (2) (Seattle, Wash.)

[AGES] 13-18

[BLURB] "Explore advanced mathematical concepts"

[ACTIVITIES] Fun with geometric transformations, and Godel's incompleteness theorem

[EXTRA...

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