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...parents are away, she may take one of her charges home with her to spend the night. At the Lennep school near Montana's Crazy Mountains, Second-Grader Lee Cavender, 7, barges in to say that his sisters, twins who constitute the entire seventh grade, will be absent today. They turned 13 over the weekend, old enough for deer-hunting licenses, and, of course, their father has taken them shooting. With or without the twins, it is time for classes to begin. Erica Hess, 11, has the school-bell duty today. But the rope has broken, so she blows...
...area's underground geological contours. Magnetic readings in the Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have noted that a commonly found rock stratum, called the Ocala formation, is suspiciously absent in southern Florida. Petuch suggests that it was hurled into the sky during impact...
...middle ground, social staples at other schools like open fraternity parties or dive bars, is largely absent at Harvard...
Harvard brought its record back to .500 with a busy first week of April. The team swept twinbills from Rhode Island and Quinnipiac, rounding into the top form conspicuously absent during its rust-plagued start in March...
...when the UC was beginning to tackle Springfest planning, council-wide institutional reform, and recommendations for the curricular review, Nichols was noticeably absent from meetings...