Word: creeks
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...shopping period gets underway, all Harvard students are finding themselves up curriculum creek without a paddle. The period of transition from the Core to General Education has been poorly handled and badly implemented, forcing students into a position where choosing classes (and choosing a curriculum) is a trauma. Although we stood behind the original Gen Ed program as envisioned by its creators, the entire process has become perverted by the College’s inadequate response to meeting students’ academic needs during the interim. The result: beleaguered upperclassmen with nowhere to turn to fulfill Core requirements and equally...
Cindy McCain is sitting by the creek that runs through the McCains' ranch, under a sycamore tree that is equipped with a ceiling fan. The spread near Sedona, Ariz., has served as the family retreat for nearly a quarter-century, and right now, there's a lot to retreat from...
...house for five and a half years - in prison," a refrain McCain himself repeated more recently during an appearance on The Tonight Show. When an Obama staffer suggested, without evidence, that McCain might have left the "cone of silence" before a forum at Rick Warren's Saddle Creek Church, McCain spokeswoman Nicole Wallace said, "The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous." And in a speech this week questioning Obama's foreign policy judgment and interpretation of the end of the Cold War, McCain himself mentioned, "Now I missed...
...gaining ground in the U.S. amid escalating concerns about the environment, pesticides and food safety in general. "Knowing exactly where your food comes from is a concern for a lot of people in the face of salmonella and E. coli scares," says Johanna Rosen of West Philadelphia's Mill Creek Farm...
...call "the Point" and on May 24, 1770, he anchored H.M. Bark Endeavour just under two miles (3.2 km) off the coast and led a small landing party ashore. They poked around what is now the burgeoning (and quaintly named) Town of 1770, at the mouth of Round Hill Creek - over three miles (5 km) north of Agnes Water. After collecting plant specimens and noticing smoke rising from Aboriginal campfires in the distance, they sailed off the following...