Word: boulderers
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...experiment was designed, the groups consisted of predominantly liberal or conservative members—with the liberal groups coming from Boulder, and the conservative groups from Colorado Springs. (Crucially, the groups were not mixed together.) It is widely known that Boulder tends to be liberal and that Colorado Springs tends to be conservative. The groups were screened to ensure that their members conformed to these stereotypes. (For example, if people in Boulder liked Vice President Cheney, they were cordially excused from the experiment.) People were asked to state their opinions anonymously both before and after a period of group discussion...
...news they see fit—regardless of what is written about the people in authority. Yet, this year we were also reminded that the freedom of the press comes with serious responsibility. In February, a columnist in The Campus Press at the University of Colorado at Boulder published a racist piece that targeted Asian students. The fallout from this piece demonstrated the substantial power of news and media organizations on campuses...
...can’t accuse Eric T. Hansford, the fiancé of Masha O. Godina ’08, of inconsistency. Four and a half years ago, while the two were high school seniors, Hansford and Godina met up on Flagstaff Mountain, just west of their hometown of Boulder, Colo. He asked her out, and they began a relationship that lasted through their respective careers at Tufts University and Harvard. But Hansford wasn’t done with that mountain just yet. Last June, Hansford asked Godina to join him for an early-morning trip to Flagstaff...
...Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of China's May 12 earthquake, is rent by fissures big enough to swallow a child and is choked with smashed trucks and enormous rocks. Near the town's outskirts, just past a compact car that has been crushed by a boulder, a landslide cuts off the road entirely. A mother, who walked into the mountains beyond to bring out her 12-year-old son, says he has been scarred by what he has seen. The landscape they are leaving behind is hellish, she says: rows of wrecked houses, collapsed schools and putrefying...
...leading to Yingxiu, a small town near the epicenter of China's May 12 earthquake, is rent by fissures big enough to swallow a child and is choked with smashed trucks and enormous rocks. Near the town's outskirts, just past a car that has been crushed by a boulder, a landslide cuts off the road entirely. A mother who walked into the mountains beyond to bring out her 12-year-old son says he's been scarred by what he's seen. The landscape they are leaving behind is hellish, she says--putrefying bodies, collapsed schools, buried roads...