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...considered the case of an ill-tempered immigrant named Erik the Red. Erik, the saga says, had arrived in Iceland several years earlier after being expelled from Norway for murder. He settled down on a farm, married a Christian woman named Thjodhild (the Norse were by now starting to convert) and had three sons, Leif, Thorvald and Thorstein, and one daughter, Freydis. It wasn't long, though, before Erik began feuding with a neighbor--something about a cow and some wallboards--and ended up killing again...
...Institute had planned to convert 70 rooms into office space for the Institute's 58 academic fellows--the most Radcliffe has ever had. But the planned renovations will begin in the summer of 2001, Armini said...
...plan to convert 70 rooms would not have had an impact on the people who want to stay, just on the number of people who can come in the future," he said...
...true that the illegal piracy of copyrighted music has become commonplace in universities across the nation with the introduction of MP3 compression, which can convert an entire compact disc of music into files small enough to be easily transmitted across college networks. Indeed, the problem of overloading networks with music files was the first issue to face universities after the launch of Napster.com: Northwestern University banned use of the service last fall after it began to consume more than 20 percent of the traffic on the campus network...
...example of creative group problem solving, McGahey notes that directors listened to one chef's idea to convert a freezer into refrigeration space, thus providing enough room for food pre-prepared by HUDS's Culinary Support Group...