Word: andreas
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...Look Again, however, protagonist Ellen Gleeson is a reporter, not an attorney. And after Gleeson spots a "Have you seen this child?" notice about a boy who looks uncannily like her own adopted three-year-old son, the race is on. (That's only Page 1!) TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline (pronounced Scot-oh-lee-nee) at her home in Philadelphia. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Andrea Mead Lawrence, who died on March 31 at age 76, always strove to be exceptional throughout her life. And she was. At 15, Andrea made the U.S. ski team that competed at the 1948 St. Moritz Olympics, where she finished eighth in the slalom event. She was the youngest U.S. skier ever to compete at the Olympics...
Four years later, Andrea was on the cover of TIME (the first U.S. skier to be so honored) the month before she competed in the Oslo Olympics. She won the giant slalom, but it's her slalom victory that still amazes me today. In her first run, she missed a gate and had to backtrack to go through. She finished that run in fourth place. Yet her second run was so spectacular that her total time was good enough for a second gold medal, making her the first female skier to win two golds at the same Olympics...
...following decades, Andrea's love of mountains (which so strongly defined her) only increased as she became a leading conservationist, founding several environmental organizations, including the Andrea Lawrence Institute for Mountains and Rivers...
...policy paper—co-sponsored by UC president Andrea R. Flores ’10—recommends that students spending at least 20 hours a week on “structured, scheduled activity” be eligible for campus housing during the period...