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...spring weather tells you to bask in the sun or toss a frisbee or kick a soccerball around the Yard, but Harvard says no. Come April, the dead turf at the edge of the paved walkways is torn up. The dirt is loosened, seeds are planted. Sticky green hydroturf (a combination fertilizer/pigeon defense) is sprayed on top of the whole project. And the good folls at Facilities Maintenance rope off the grass...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Keep Off the Grass! | 4/24/1991 | See Source »

...Jolly (Premedicus Dweebus)--Members of this species, comprising a plurality of premeds, think reading period is the high point of the academic year. In reading period, they point out, they don't have to attend non-science classes. They can bask in their pre-med notes hour after hour like pigs in the slops...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Tracking the Indigenous Premed | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...wasn't pretty, but the Harvard women's soccer team will gladly bask in the glow of its 3-0 laugher against Holy Cross yesterday at Worcester...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: W. Booters Win Despite Lackluster Performance | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...slope, is dominated by a soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Noah's Ark - the Sequel | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

...index finger and cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its restaurant. I can dive beneath the deep- blue surface of the sound, go swimming with the whale and bask in the staccato chatter of its birdlike mating call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: (Mis)Adventures In Cyberspace | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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