Word: arounders
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...fished until about 10:15 a.m. At about 10:10, the wheels fell off. Heeding a warning from an hour earlier about a shark in the area, the few wading fisherman, including my father, were trying to keep their stringers of fish out of the water. As I turned around to begin walking in toward shore, my father made his last few casts. Then, WHAP! A giant slapping sound and a lightning-like splash of water shattered our serene scene...
...make matters worse, it took the Coast Guard nearly an hour once they arrived to throw over a line to the Escort. And once the line was received at around 3 a.m., the long journey back to harbor still lay ahead...
...this sense, the word "integration"--thrown around by the College and House Masters as emblematic of a healthy House community--is both vague and misleading. To expect students to abandon their self-created social circles for the companionship of several hundred random residents is both silly and simple-minded. Social circles of varying sizes are an inevitable part of House and campus life. Eliminate them in the form of blocking and they will merely recreate themselves after subsequent rounds of the yarn game...
...earthquake toll has risen above 1,800, but the island has strict building codes to thank for the fact that it wasn't considerably higher. As rescuers Wednesday struggled to reach some 3,000 people estimated to be trapped under the rubble and quake specialists and civil engineers from around the world rushed to Taiwan to study the latest disaster, early word was that it could have been a lot worse. Despite the strength of the tremor ? 7.6 on the Richter scale compared with 7.4 for the recent Turkish disaster ? the destruction was limited by the enforcement of strict building...
...super-trendy Kate Spade handbags, would be far less likely to have to work for substandard wages in the U.S. if salaries in other countries were higher. "Cheap foreign manufacturing makes U.S. labor unions very nervous," says Baumohl. "The labor leaders have a vested interest in seeing better wages around the world, because that eventually translates into a level playing field, with fewer jobs leaving the U.S." Then at least Kathie Lee won't have to fork out for airfare as well as those checks...