Word: summering
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Blake also was a practice player for the U.S. Davis Cup team that played in Brookline over the summer...
...Karmapa's flight caps a year in which the authorities in Beijing are facing growing discontent from religious believers of varied stripe. Besides the challenge represented by the widespread Falun Gong sect, which was banned amid national protests in the summer, Beijing has faced continued resistance from Islamic separatists in its westernmost provinces, and earlier this week China's leadership set a collision course with the pope by engineering the appointment of three officially approved bishops to the Chinese Catholic Church over the Vatican's objections. The Karmapa's defection may be a blow to Chinese efforts to legitimize...
...adds, "it's like a big billiard table out there," with rocks and planets and moons zipping around each other in space. Some folks may never admit that there is any risk, and reject the need for taxpayer-funded research: Even after the widespread success of the summer disaster movies, "Armageddon" (which Jaroff calls "ridiculous") and the "far more realistic" "Deep Impact," legions of nonbelievers remain. And while Jaroff sometimes finds it difficult to educate the most die-hard skeptics of the real risk posed by asteroids, he keeps trying. "I used to tell people that even if an asteroid...
...deficit in our balance of international payments is about $300 billion. A three-bedroom apartment in the most fashionable neighborhoods of Manhattan rents for about $12,000 a month. The median price for a house nationwide is $133,000. People pay as much as $350,000 to rent a summer house to be near partygoing writers, editors and agents, whose principal ambition in life is to be able to rent a $350,000 summer house. One person is paid $10 million a year for hitting a baseball. Another person is paid $7 million a year for talking to other people...
...food or drinking water or telephones. Yet it throws a curious light on our millennial dreams. There is no place of higher education to serve the 3,000 or so residents, and mass transportation is said to consist of a bus that runs occasionally on Sundays in the summer. A 21st century luxury on this remote Chilean possession is wood. And the few foreigners who gather here to see in the new millennium do so largely in the spirit of people choosing to spend the holidays with their grandparents. All over the island, in the ceremonial sites, you see lonely...