Word: visitor
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...lessons from tenured university faculty. Undergraduates serve as teachers' aides, and kids spend their summer vacations studying on the campus of a nearby college. When students graduate from the fifth grade, they get a handshake and a diploma from a university president. So it was understandable that when a visitor recently toured the school, a bespectacled third-grader asked, "Excuse me, Miss? Are you a professor...
Once one is settled in an apartment or house, life is quite manageable for foreigners, especially if they learn some Italian. Basic medical care is accessible and decent. A resident's visa is easy to obtain, although a visitor's visa may be fine for brief stays. Foreigners can e-mail those back home, as well as open a bank account for depositing U.S. checks...
...familiar face for Harvard was stationed at an unfamilar location after the Princeton game--the visitor's locker room...
...book, they would do it, and the cursory check at the door would be no barrier. In fact, one door checker told me that they hardly ever find anyone stealing books. "And that's how it should be," he said. Right. So why the system that burdens every library visitor and requires a full time guard...
...answers may finally be found. The mountain is dotted with white and silver observatory domes, sprouting like oversize mushrooms from the barren, rocky rubble that was once molten lava and, much later, a holy place of the native Hawaiian people. And although it's not obvious to the casual visitor, these domes conceal stargazing machines of unprecedented power...