Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sitting curled up on my bed, eyes bloodshot and stomach growling, I steadily punch the keys on my laptop in order to make the next fellowship deadline. And then it hits me. I am back in my senior year of high school. The self-marketing blitz, the standardized tests, the clever essays, they all come rushing back to me. It seems like ages ago when we were all declaring to the world (or at least to our favorite colleges) that we were worthy, that all those Advanced Placements courses should count for something...
...barometer, the Christmas season had begun. I grumbled and continued on my way. Despite my grumbling, as I walked I got to thinking that the holidays really were just around the corner. That night I pulled my red and green one piece pajamas out of the trunk under my bed. It was the first time holiday cheer had appeared in my dorm room in a very long time, and I decided it was time to bring it back...
...within the past 12 hours and notified police that a baby might be missing. Grossberg's roommate told the police about Peterson, and they called Gettysburg College. There, a dormitory adviser and a campus security officer approached Peterson, who told them where the baby was. The police found bloody bed linens in each of the couple's dorm rooms, and in Peterson's, a map of Newark and a receipt from the White Glove Car Wash...
...proves to be an athletic lover, which is fortunate, since the couple's bed is 75 ft. in the air. But he is not much more sensitive to inter-primate relationships than a suit-wearing human male. Hoeg causes Madelene to brood, with the gluey profundity that clots his novel: "Deep inside, for the first time in her life, she came to terms with the fact that even the one you love you cannot ever fully understand...
Sufian, who learned she had cystic fibrosis at age 9, gives countless hours of free legal advice, even from bed during her periodic hospitalizations. She answers questions from patients, doctors and parents of sick children on issues from insurance coverage to employment rights. She is also helping start a camp for children who have cystic fibrosis. Says she: "I hope my efforts shatter the stereotypes not only about lawyers but also about people with disabilities...