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...During the war,] rich kids from Nob Hill wallowed in boot camp mud along with poor townies from Southie. Fortune 500 heirs bled to death wedged into foxholes with scions of first-generation steelworkers," Rogers says...
...that climber Dave Hahn likened it to "a Greek or Roman marble statue." Mallory's face was the only part of his body unexposed. He had a broken right arm, trauma to his shoulder and fractures of both leg bones just above the top of his single surviving hobnail boot. Even so, the climbers were awed by the physical specimen before them. "We each noticed the muscular arms of the climber," says Hahn. "After all these years, George Mallory still cut an impressive figure...
...Yard or sunning on the MAC quad--not to mention the opportunity to redeem oneself by catching up on all that reading not done in the last three months? By the time finals come around, we'll all be incredibly well-studied and might even have great tans to boot...
...Sister Mary William and company. If I'd gone to my neighborhood school instead of the parish school, it's doubtful I would have gone to college on scholarship or have the life I now do, the result of diagramming hundreds of sentences and writing countless essays under boot-camp conditions. But there's a difference: no one thought non-Catholic taxpayers should subsidize that choice or that money should be taken away from the public schools...
...computer's hard drive, hiding from anti-virus software by tucking itself into memory reserved for various utility applications. When it strikes, it infects a computer's BIOS or "basic input/output system," a part of the machine so fundamental that a computer affected by CIH 1.2 won't even boot up. According to a Reuters report, most up-to-date antivirus software should be able to stop the virus before it strikes...