yurts int he news

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

Kir points us to:
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/02/27/fp2s2-csm.shtml
where we learn:
>The morning's workout made us eager for lunch. That's when I caught my
>first glance of a yurt. Of Scandinavian origin, yurts look like a cross
between
>a gazebo and a tent. 

Scandinavian?!?  Handed down to us from Olaf Khan?

and:
>Few things are cozier than being lulled to sleep by the muted sounds of
>wind-thrashed hemlocks rippling against a yurt's stretched canvas. 

Canvas?  What kind of a yurt is this?  If it ain't made of felt, then
it's just a tent.

Shame on Joshua S. Burek, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Jean-Joseph