Word: cod
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Excursions to Cape Cod and Tanglewood are onthe agenda for the summer students, as well ascollege-hunting trips for the high schoolstudents. The Harvard Summer Orchestra plans togive three free concerts in air-conditionedSanders Theatre, which are expected to be popular...
...Cape Cod offers nearly 300 miles of coastlinedotted with an array of quaint fishing villagesand rocky beaches. Ferries to Martha's Vineyardand Nantucket leave daily. A trip to the islandsrequires a little planning, some extra cash, ahard to get reservation and a tolerance fortourists but it's well worth the effort. Whitesand, clear surf and gray-shingled cottages withwidow's walks on the rooves all abound on theislands...
...bleeding heart of downtown, near a city power works and a Chrysler assembly plant, Victoria Park offers serene, curving streets and handsome colonial- and Cape Cod-style homes. The incongruous setting did not deter builders from snapping up city-owned lots for a dollar apiece, then designing gracious homes with porch decks, two-car garages and cathedral ceilings. Buyers, unfazed by the city's mean reputation, grabbed 70 of the 86 available houses, for prices that were typically 25% less than comparable homes in the suburbs. Among the first new owners: a Desert Storm nurse, a church minister...
American colonists located farmsteads on south-facing slopes and planted windbreaks on the northern side of their homes. Residents of Cape Cod, contending with massive deforestation of their peninsula, built tidy homes with south facing windows and roofs that sloped to cast off the north wind...
...ENTERED NEW England hospitals with vitamin D overdoses, but researchers wanted to find out. Too little of this crucial vitamin can lead to bone weakness and rickets, the deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead to death...