Word: cliff
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...skills of a subterranean mountain climber, which is why Lake of the Clouds is off limits to the public. The underground trek involves scrambling through narrow passages, navigating around steep crevasses and using ropes to descend two drop-offs -- the second of which encompasses a 60-m (200 ft.) cliff. Turn off the miner's light on your helmet, and you cannot see your hand in front of your face...
What is going on, educators contend, is that many families are profligate in their spending and unwilling to sacrifice for education as previous generations have. "It wasn't until the late '60s that federal aid was considered an entitlement," says Cliff Sjogren, U.S.C.'s dean of admissions and financial aid. Sjogren himself dropped out of the University of Michigan for a year to earn money -- an approach he feels is now rare. "When I went to college in the '40s, my parents really had to sacrifice. Now parents are trying to figure out strategies of getting money rather than saving...
...mire of sentimentality and bombast. From Peggy' liner notes: "This classical mythical image of 'enlightenment' ironically mirrored the supposed death of the world through the Greenhouse Effect. It was a beautiful and absurd double-edged sword. This enormous Mother Earth was standing at the very edge of the highest cliff of Infinity--and was about to leap off...I had to make this record about the crazy situation...
Wolf Vision, which is based in Silver Cliff, Colorado, gave two successive presentations, which included an educational video and closed with the introduction of the four captive wolves...
...Cliff Hittner, a senior at Northeastern University who volunteered in the stretch drive of the Republican campaign, echoed Stimmons' disbelief...