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...Gene Hooks, athletic director at Wake Forest, thinks that a total ban on recruiting in the sport involved would be a better remedy, especially in the case of schools with less prominent programs...
Such large-scale earth-moving can have serious implications for the entire region's ecology. There was never much topsoil in the area but thick forest held the ground and rainwater tumbled down innumerable streams hidden in extremely steep valleys. But during and after mining, when the trees and topsoil are gone, water flows straight down the hillside, taking a good portion of the mountain with it. Silt has filled in many-of the area's streams, and the water table is deteriorating as previously reliable wells run dry. Martiki has built a large silt dam to capture the dirt...
Subsequent losses to the University of South Carolina, ranked seventh in the nation, and the University of North Carolina and a win over Wake Forest brought the squad's spring record to a disappointing...
About once a month, though, the juice glasses at Jerry's Restaurant on San Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez...
...handled very cleverly even on a purely physical level. Because the memoirs come alive only through the readership of Zoditch, Chulkaturin's history is played out among the paraphernalia of Zoditch's boarding house. The first reader's bed serves the focus for much of the action--parior scenes, forest scene, garden scenes all occur around the bed, on which Zoditch, himself sits, reading the manuscript, impervious and scornful...