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...traffic around Fort Madison. So the true secret of the town's success, then, can be found every Thursday morning at the sinfully addictive Ivy Bake Shoppe, where Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
...city from water surges have had a perverse effect: they have actually made it more vulnerable to flooding. That's because New Orleans has been kept in place by the precarious balance of two opposing forces. Because the city is constructed on 100 feet of soft silt, sand and clay, it naturally "subsides," or sinks, several feet a century. Historically, that subsidence has been counteracted by sedimentation: new silt, sand and clay that are deposited when the river floods. But since the levees went up--mostly after the great flood of 1927--the river has not been flooding, and sedimentation...
...historian John Canemaker, director of the animation program at New York University, "feature animation was dominated by one style: Disney's. Now a diversity of techniques and styles are gaining acceptance. There are computer-animated features, such as Pixar's Toy Story and A Bug's Life. There is clay and/or puppet animation--and because of the artistry of Nick Park and Peter Lord, it is going to grab audiences. We are expanding the definition of the form. It's a brave new world in animation...
...freshmen proved their mettle by finishing first at the Priddy Trophy held at Dartmouth. Freshmen Clay Bischoff and Lema Kikuchi, who is also a Crimson editor, narrowly edged out a team of Tufts sailors to win the Priddy in shifty conditions...
This year, with two senior holdovers from that NCAA team, a junior transfer from North Carolina and a plethora of freshmen and sophomores, Delaney-Smith had a deep and tall--but relatively fresh--lump of clay from which to mold a team...