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...three granddaughters of Betty Foose, 66, a Sammamish, Wash., Realtor, get a geography lesson when she takes them up in her plane. Over the years, Cristina Greig, 15, has learned that California isn't actually golden, and she knows she's in Oregon when she crosses the Columbia River. When Cristina and her sister Alysha were little, they posed their own geography question. As the plane broke through the overcast gray into a brilliant blue sky dotted with white clouds, Alysha, 4, asked, "Grandma, is this heaven?" Foose's response, after a pause, was, "No, not heaven but getting very...
...violent death came to Kala Dhaka, in spades. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas. Entire villages were devastated; in an instant, stone houses turned into burial mounds. The Indus river, flowing at the bottom of the valleys, recalls one tribal elder, Mohammed Said, "looked like water boiling inside a tea kettle...
...great location, and food will have a profoundly positive impact for social life on campus. Lamont’s location right by a shuttle stop would make it convenient for quadlings to frequent until late at night, a fact that might finally help unite the Quad and the River. An alternative place for food and coffee located close to the stacks will draw diligent students away from their books to—gasp—socialize. In a way, a Lamont “student center” has the potential to combine the genial atmosphere of an upperclass dining...
...only counterarguments—to what is an undeniably good thing—involve reservations about time. The argument is that if Lamont becomes a student center, there will be no impetus for the construction of a real student center across the river. If the last year has taught us anything, it is that student activism, serious or otherwise, can change the minds of College and University planners. Until that’s proven wrong, it makes no sense to downplay and insult what the College is already offering...
...brother was in my class. We became friends, and then I romanced her at Charlie’s Kitchen,” Fingleton says. He asks me if I know of the place. Being a freshman, I say no. “It used to be down near the river, a dumpy little place,” he waxes, nostalgically. “I had absolutely no money, [but] I wanted to take her out on dates...