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...iron mines have dried up, and young people move on in search of the metropolitan lifestyle Duluth fights to insulate itself from. Buried in the snows of long winters, residents hole up in the bitter cold with wool and addiction, the pace of life slowing to a crawl. Last Saturday the band’s frigid notes resonated just as well with the thawing tundra setting of the Somerville Theater...
...missed the parade because I simply had no desire to stand in the cold and watch those stupid Duck Boats crawl by. Again. I did that a mere 14 weeks ago, when the Red Sox celebrated their first title since the Wilson administration...
College is the institution most of us entrust to watch over the transition to adulthood, but somewhere along the line that transition has slowed to a crawl. In a TIME poll of people ages 18 to 29, only 32% of those who attended college left school by age 21. In fact, the average college student takes five years to finish. The era of the four-year college degree is all but over...
...Stags continued to dominate, most notably at the beginning of the second half, and led by as many as 16 as Fairfield never let Harvard crawl back into the game...
...Even in the capital, many are waiting to experience better times. The town's few cars crawl crab-like around potholes the size of plunge pools on the main drag. Honiara has electricity and telephones, but both systems are prone to mid-afternoon heart attacks. The ramsi economy - blow-in consultants, home security, caf?s, hotels, vehicles and the like - does have some trickle-down effect. But for father of five Peter Loea, 36, a fisherman, "the jobs aren't there" and finding money to school his children - the government has promised to make primary education free from 2006 - is proving...