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...Loma Mar and Rio Nido a couple of weeks before, as torrents of mud filled with debris smashed into dwellings with terrifying force. No one died in the Rio Nido slide, but homeowner Gary LaCombe feels lucky to be alive. He vividly remembers watching a tree's mammoth root ball, 12 ft. in diameter, hurtle toward his kitchen window, then veer off at the last minute, narrowly missing his house. Now LaCombe, along with his wife Phyllis and a few hundred of his neighbors, has been evacuated by county officials, barred from returning home because geologists fear that an even...
...need to go...to the root causes ofcrime...Twice in my career in Los Angeles I haveseen the city go up in flames," Cochran said...
Contrary to popular belief, the root of Harvard's relationship problems doesn't lie in the inherent unattractiveness of Harvard men. Studies have shown that the most compatible couples have similar levels of attractiveness. Thus, it shouldn't matter if all the men at Harvard are ugly, since probability indicates that all the women here must be equally repugnant...
...fudge selection is not enough to satisfy that hyperactive sweet tooth, or if the need for a tasty beverage arises, Billings & Stover also features a soda fountain complete with banana splits ($4.59) and root beer floats ($2.45). A truly New England establishment, Billings & Stover makes the distinction between a frappe (with ice cream) and a shake (without ice cream), a detail which just adds to the charm...
...other students not the professor will be wowed by your fine-tuned commentary which you duly gleaned from your Core class last year. Instead, the grads will parry by demonstrating how a particular verse in Act IV differs in the First Folio, which incidentally resembles the Middle English root of the verb as it appears in Sonnet Number 42. So what is the seminar-jocks' secret? They did the reading--and then some...