Word: desertions
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...would you rather be stranded with on a desert island: Ann Coulter or Katherine Harris...
...often as we can. Apart from the charming natural environment and the crystal-clear sea, beautiful memories of precious moments with my family tie me to that place. Our house is in the countryside, and once we get there, it's like being on a desert island?we can enjoy all the tranquillity of the environment and relax. And when we feel like it, we can go to the tiny bars on the beach or do a little shopping at the market of Sant Francesc (I always find interesting things there) or even visit the "Hippie" market, which is always...
What's more, the air-conditioned arena, which lets in natural light through its retractable roof made of woven polyester reinforced with Teflon, also restores a home-field advantage lost to the desert heat. Because of the climate, the Cardinals haven't had a home opener in the open-air Sun Devil Stadium at Arizona State University in Tempe since they moved from St. Louis in 1988. And when they played at home, the 73,000-seat stadium was often half empty. Now, with the eight home games sold out for 2006, "all that positive energy gives our guys...
...person find truth and justice in this land?,'" says Ngugi. "So Moi sent the police to arrest him." Realizing the character was fictional, they arrested the book instead and Matigari was banned. It was 10 years before Ngugi could bring himself to write another novel. "The muse seemed to desert me," he says, giggling softly. "She was scared after what they did to Matigari." When she finally returned, she led him into a novel that would take the next eight years to finish. Originally published in Ngugi's mother tongue, Gikuyu, and now translated into English, Wizard of the Crow...
James Sanchez, 21, from the dusty high-desert town of Espaņola, N.M., is a senior at Davidson College in North Carolina and an aspiring neuroscientist. He figured that at a bigger school he would have been lucky to spend his lab time washing beakers for the star scientists. At Davidson, where there are no grad students, Sanchez's senior thesis is an integral part of a larger three-year study of memory and learning in rats that may offer new insights into Alzheimer's. His professor anticipates that the research will be published in a top-shelf neuroscience journal...