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Beth Peet had never been on a roller coaster. But she had a friend named Julia Grimm. Julia was a little more adventurous than Beth, or perhaps just more curious. Last Memorial Day, reported USA Today, the two high school students traveled from their hometown of Montoursville, Pennsylvania, to Hershey Park, for a Weird Al Yankovic concert; while there, Julia took Beth up on one of the park's wild rides. Last week adventure beckoned again. Both girls had a chance to go on the Montoursville High School French club's excursion to France. Beth, given a choice...
...this summer, the only thing that's really engaged off-hours attention has been the Joe Klein/Anonymous discord, and that's only because there's not enough passive political gossip to fuel even the most curious of wonks...
...politician whose party did not field a single female candidate in the last elections; she is a decidedly secular, right-wing former Prime Minister who got her husband to take her surname. Odd couplings are common in politics, but the union of Necmettin Erbakan and Tansu Ciller is especially curious. Last week Erbakan became the head of the first Islamist-majority coalition government in Turkey since Kemal Ataturk declared it a secular state in 1923. In two years' time, Erbakan is due to hand over power to Ciller and her True Path Party. The deal was ratified during a parliamentary...
...partnership between Simons and Lewis is curious in light of previous tension between the two. Simons has been highly critical of Lewis over the last several months, referring to the dean as someone "who consistently undervalues student input" in decision-making processes...
...interior of Curious George, which also features a small room set aside for younger children, follows a jungle motif, complete with a mas- sive tree in the middle of the store...