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...crucial component of the first-year seminar application is an interview, which is often given to groups of two or three. I had expected 20 minutes of torment and stress underneath intense scrutiny from professors whose academic repertoire and expertise would read like the hefty course catalog in my backpack. I would be yet another illiterate ingrate in their retinue. But professors here did not prove as frightening as I had imagined they would...
...stories are varied. The alleged dealer in prescription drugs is said to have become addicted first to crack, then to methamphetamines, which can produce extremely violent behavior in some users. Or was it AIDS rage that caused him to run amuck? The tabloid Star claims to have retrieved a backpack belonging to Cunanan that contains an empty envelope from the Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, a firm that provides HIV testing. As for Cunanan's actual HIV status, that remains for the coroner's office to disclose. Florida law imposes strict privacy rules even for the dead...
...requirements are simple for hikers participating in next month's 18-day coed wilderness adventure in White Mountain National Forest and its environs. The teenagers must be in good physical condition and have some backpacking experience and a keen desire to learn new skills. On the first day, the guides will have no trouble spotting the less experienced ones among their eight charges. Though burdened with a 45-to-50-lb. backpack, the uninitiated typically try to forge ahead of their more experienced comrades. After the first breathless leg, however, they'll be pacing themselves like pros...
...definitely not as convenient," said Melissa J. Gambol '99. "Climbing stairs and having to empty your backpack is annoying, I suppose...