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...cicada's three-week life aboveground are played out as the female deposits hundreds of eggs in a series of pockets cut in twigs. Nine weeks later the microscopic nymphs hatch, drop to the ground and burrow down as far as 2 ft., where they grow, eat and await their coming-out 17 years hence. The fact that this brood will not reappear until 2004 is one reason scientists are reluctant to put too much of their time into unlocking the cicada's secrets. As Richard Froeschner, a research entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, points out, "Enthusiasm and curiosity tend...
...firms usually attempt to acquire potential employees in their second year of law school, frequently by offering students lucrative summer internships between their second and third years. Full-time jobs often await these students after graduation...
Rescuers worked frantically to pull injured construction workers from the edges of the collapsed downtown building, and families gathered at a high school to await news of their relatives. Twelve people were hospitalized...
...scene and characters, but not the cast, are completely different. A group of people gradually gather in a motel room to await the arrival and performance of the Arno Klein Theatre troupe. Lynette (Harriet Harris) and Gary (Nestor Serrano) have driven for 300 miles just to see them. But this is not your usual motel room. It soon becomes clear that this is the mysterious "Day Room," mentioned in the first act. DeLillo is in hot pursuit of as much theatrical symmetry as he can force down the audience's throat...
...visit could well be that the nation is too unstable and the goals of a Harvard-sponsored program too dubious to support any Ed School program other than a very small one, or one entirely based in America. But, hoping this not to be the case, we anxiously await hearing the report of one Harvard administrator who appears finally to have made the right kind of trip to that troubled country...