Word: boulderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeps across the screen makes chilling sense. Jack Torrance has drifted from the security of a teaching job at an elite New England prep school to the doors of the Overlook Hotel, where he applies for the position of winter caretaker. The Overlook stands high in the Rockies of Boulder, Colorado, an enormous summer resort with a history that extends to the beginning of the century. During the winter, however, snowfalls that cover the access road from November to May cut off the Overlook from civilization. Jack expects to finish a novel during the quiet months in the hotel...
...finally permitted to load and sail under Castro's slow and erratic selection of exiles will have greater U.S. protection on the sometimes perilous 110-mile voyage than those hapless earlier captains whose boats were swamped by high winds. The U.S. Navy has the landing ship Boulder and the amphibious assault ship Saipan patrolling the Florida Straits. The Saipan has 14 helicopters equipped for plucking accident survivors out of the sea. The Coast Guard has ten vessels and at least eight helicopters on similar duty. More than 800 Marines were also flown from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune...
...tradition, try in their own ways to seek "the universal principles" behind all religions and bring on the "New Era" of world spirituality. Several Tibetan Buddhist groups ply their trade, the biggest being the Boylston Street Dharmadatu, connected to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of the Naropa Institute in Boulder. The Hare Krishnas have a communal house on Commonwealth Ave., and members of Unification Church and Divine Light Mission also have local ashrams. Scientology operates a mission and consults for a school in Cambridge. Transcendental Meditation has a large house on Concord Ave. where they teach classes and promote Maharishi...
...last November. In addition to Chopin mazurkas and Debussy preludes, he played a work of his own composition called The Myth of Sisyphus. Souss says the sonata was actually intended as a kind of anti-myth of Sisyphus, the legendary King of Corinth whose fate was to push a boulder up a mountain throughout eternity. As such, it represents a musical interpretation of Souss's belief "that man must take destiny into his own hands." Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Souss was only three years old when the Palestinians were expelled from the city after the 1948 Arab-Israeli...
...Hawaii. Though Namias cannot precisely explain the mechanism, he says that as the air passes over the water and warms up, the newly acquired heat influences the direction of the jet stream. Other scientists are not so sure. Climatologist Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., points out that any number of factors could influence air flows, including solar flares, clouds of dust, snow on the ground and even the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Adds the Weather Service's Gilman: "The westerlies behave very much like the 'average...