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...Aurora Mebwar, who works in Leverett’s dining hall, says she appreciates that she can work the 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift...
...growing force in the athletic-shoe game. The field boasts its own websites, and exclusive, often unmarked rare-sneaker shops are popping up nationwide. These vintage kicks are even the stuff of urban art, with former pro skateboarder Chris Hall planning to display his collection this month at the Aurora Gallery in New York City. In addition, "Sneaker Pimps," an exhibition featuring rare and limited-edition sneakers from all over the world, recently arrived from Australia for a tour of the U.S.; it includes collections from famous pro skaters and hip-hop artists and even some borrowed from shoe-company...
...more than two-thirds of plant-based medicines are being tested in corn--a plant whose genetics is well understood. But the perils of using food crops became clear last December when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered the incineration of 500,000 bushels of soybeans in Aurora, Neb. The soybeans, from a plant used in everything from baby food and margarine to ice cream, were inadvertently mixed in a silo with corn that was genetically engineered by a Texas firm, ProdiGene Inc., to produce a vaccine against pig diarrhea. "Drugs have side effects," says Jean Halloran...
...forever in the arms of a young woman who only has music in her heart. The affair does not end happily. Indeed, few of Rhodes' tales have conventionally happy endings. For example, in one of Timoleon Vieta's romantic detours, we read of the deaf and diligent daughter Aurora, who falls hard for a local hoodlum, to the horror of her whole family. All, that is, except for the canny grandmother, who tells Aurora she is doomed to act out one of the oldest stories in the book; the one where the bad boy makes good, the couple settles into...
...trouble started when six penguins from Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, were shipped out to join the San Francisco group. The West Coasters had filled their days with an easy routine: eating, preening and paddling in their 130-ft. by 40-ft. pool. From November to February, they had retreated to their burrows. But not this year...