Word: climbing
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...climb aboard the van that will take me and four other newspaper interns from The Kansas City Star on our obligatory tour of the metropolitan area we will be covering this summer, my first order of business is to clear up the common confusion surrounding my hometown...
...heal myself. It was a survival instinct." "I felt suffocated and trapped in the life I was in," says The Real World's Julie. "I certainly did a lot of growing up." Others, like Bowler, compare the experience to adventure travel. "Other people want to climb Mount Everest, but I've always wanted to go back and forward in time," she says...
...other colleges, most of whom live in minuscule two-person boxers with cinder block walls and linoleum floors, tend to get jealous when they see pictures of elegant Harvard quarters. And with good reason. Harvard's dorms have some drawbacks, of course; students need to develop the stamina to climb stairs and a high tolerance for old architecture. But a housing system that involves working fireplaces, wooden floors, spacious rooms and beautiful landscaping isn't such a bad start to a Harvard career...
ROMER: Here in L.A. I've got a pretty steep mountain to climb in terms of space limitations, leaving little flexibility for summer...
...most part, evidence seems to bear this assertion out: student retention rates are the highest in the nation, almost all undergraduates live on campus, admissions yield rates continue to climb and giving by alumni is extremely generous...