Word: nearest
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Mentors might invite the family out for social gatherings, or simply tell them where the nearest laundromat or the best bagel store is located, according to Kovacev...
...dried root vegetables, some rice and flour and the snowshoe hares he tracked down with his .22-cal. rifle. In the early 1980s, David headed for the desolate Christmas Mountains of West Texas. The cabin he has used for part of each year stands 20 miles from the nearest paved road. Before it was finished, he hunkered down for a while in just a hole dug in the ground. To keep out what little rain fell, he pulled a tarpaulin across the opening...
...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...Tigers (9-1, 5-0 Ivy) have already clinched a tie for the title. After stellar wins this past week, Princeton has surpassed its nearest Ivy competition...
...Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice that of his nearest rival. It was the first time the people of Taiwan had directly elected their leader--indeed, it was the first time a head of state had been popularly elected in the 4,000 years of Chinese civilization...