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...graduate student in U.S. geography, with a particular academic interest in New Hampshire. My department teaches a popular lecture course on New Hampshire, but because the course head is new to the Faculty this year, prior years’ enrollments in the course provide only a ballpark guess as to what this year’s enrollment will be. The head of the New Hampshire course offers a teaching appointment to me—pending enrollment. I may have the opportunity to teach one, two or three sections of that course—or none at all. We won?...
...ballpark! I've never felt better...
...sorry...those are five reasons to smoke cigarettes. Meat is more complicated. It's a food most Americans eat virtually every day: at the dinner table; in the cafeteria; on the barbecue patio; with mustard at a ballpark; or, a billion times a year, with special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun. Beef is, the TV commercials say, "America's food"--the Stars and Stripes served up medium rare--and as entwined with the nation's notion of its robust frontier heritage as, well, the Marlboro...
...seeing the best Japanese players will have to follow the trail taken by the stream of jet-lagged Japanese tourists stumbling around Dodger Stadium, Pac Bell Park and Safeco Field. The influx into Seattle has been so pronounced that the team has posted signs in Japanese around the ballpark. "I'd like to say to Seattle baseball people and the mayor of Seattle, 'Please give an award to me,'" Inow says. "Seattle was known in Japan before, but it was not so popular. Now look: Seattle is Ichiro's town, and Japanese people are coming. I need a special bonus...
This was suspicious enough to persuade the cops to dig further into Ridgway's background. They found the records of his 1982 arrest for soliciting a police decoy and the 1983 incident near the school ballpark. From his two ex-wives and an ex-girlfriend, they learned about his appetite for outdoor sex--and found he had arranged trysts, camped out or picked blackberries at as many as seven of the body dump sites...