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...probably dismiss this trend. But beware, for those of you who have already said "nonsense" are the incoming freshmen who have already been conned. You've probably answered every advertisement you've received. Lord only knows how much printed paraphernalia you get before you even set foot on Cambridge soil (and how much more of it you'll get when you finally do). Let's just say the novelty of it all intrigued you to the point of helplessness...
...frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner of the Endzone,clutching a football with a pregnant, held sigh, heaving that sigh, and mumbling, "Here, at least, is a spot that will be forever Crone." Maintaining his hold on that inconsequential little square of Harvard soil, clutching it tenaciously in the continuum of his mind as though it, too, will never die and fade into the memories of a one-time quarterback who went to training camp with the St. Louis Cardinals and was never heard from again, Crone is gone. You missed...
...much lettuce," she said, "that we had to give it away." The College of Agricultural Sciences at Berkeley has for years offered the families of graduate students the use of small plots of land for farming. This season there is a waiting list. The school's soil is so rich and free of insects that first-time farmers are bringing in bonanza crops. The wife of an astronomy student produced such a surplus of zucchini that she is now making zucchini marmalade...
Much of the mood in Minnesota has to do with the comparatively unspoiled land. Southern Minnesota is an expanse of rolling countryside, a patchwork of rectangular fields, the loam that has made Minnesota the country's third largest corn producer (after Iowa and Nebraska), the soil that yields 100 bushels of corn and 40 bushels of soybeans to the acre. To the north and west, the land flattens into prairies that merge going eastward, with hills of nearly primeval forest. The northwestern lands are more sandy, but rich enough to produce ample crops of wheat...
...prison in Alabama, an elderly inmate who had suffered a stroke was forced to sit on a wooden bench so that he would not soil...