Word: abyss
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...worked," says the father, a tombstone carver. "I had to buy a book so I could give him some answers." Eleven years later, the son was still groping for answers, this time to a much larger question: how to save a world that he felt was headed for the abyss. Last month, Adamec made up his mind. On March 6, he walked to Wenceslas Square in Prague, climbed the steps of the National Museum, doused himself with gasoline and lit a match. Passersby rushed to his aid, putting out the flames with coats and a fire extinguisher. But paramedics couldn...
...with preregistration tabled, it is more important than ever to address the underlying concerns that allowed us to reach the edge of this pedagogical abyss. Preregistration was only a makeshift solution to such fundamental problems as the poor quality of concentration advising, the misallocation of classroom space and the decreasing number of available teaching assistants. While we are certain that these issues will be addressed in the upcoming curricular review, in the interim the administration should take action to address these issues...
...home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just becoming aware of her power over men. She doesn't want to go to college and spend "four years writing bad girl-poetry"; he is reluctant to take advantage of the first girl who could make him fall into the abyss of love...
Before we touched it, we charted it. Before we charted it, we named it. Before we named it, we looked up to it. And we always will. Humans have gazed above and sought to learn more about the massive abyss that looms over us—space—and the gas and particles that sprinkle the sky with stars. Although we know that risks abound with any exploration of this magnitude, tragedies as a result of space journey become no less poignant when they occur...
...Bankers Association of America's report last week of a 6.1 percent dropoff in their index of mortgage and refinancing activity for the week ended Jan. 17, even as mortgage rates continued to fall, suggests that last year's "refi" boom - credited with keeping the country from the economic abyss in a year that could have been much worse - may have peaked...