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...same though. It wasn’t personal in those situations. I’d see people while driving and give them money sometimes, and at other times not give them money. I never really talked to them. It was always an interaction with some distant person that I’d probably never see again...
...stuff behind that can, in turn, coalesce into planets. All stars can additionally snag passing bodies in their gravitational lasso, conscripting new worlds to add to the home-grown litter. So it was no surprise in the early 1990s when astronomers began detecting these so-called extrasolar planets circling distant suns, and it's no surprise that in the years since they've spotted more than 220 of them. But the latest one added to the list is by far the best...
...with the A squad posting an impressive time of 7:50.6 and beating out the No. 19 Spartans by a five-second margin. Later, the B team thumped Michigan State by almost 13 seconds, notching a time of 8:05.2 to the Spartans 8:18.1. The Bulldogs finished a distant third in both races. “I think everyone overall was really satisfied,” freshman Ariel Shaker said. “We want to be able to beat teams like Yale, especially when its comes time for [Eastern] Sprints.” Despite not earning first place...
...sort of helped me to see how short life is, and how much we stand to learn from each other,” he says. It is this imperative to learn from those close to him that makes Sundquist skeptical of typical political rhetoric that he considers calculated and distant.“I think the UC can isolate people, so people don’t really understand what we’re doing,” Sundquist says. “I think people sometimes feel like the UC is removed from their daily lives, and we need...
...Earth, six and a half millennia pre-Frodo, back when Treebeard was barely shaving (Tolkien scholars will know that The Lord of the Rings takes place in Middle Earth's Third Age). The First Age has a different feel to it: it's younger and wilder somehow. The elves, distant figures in The Lord of the Rings, spend more time outside their secret spa-resorts mixing it up with mere mortals. When, in the midst of a huge battle, a balrog rears up and whips down a warrior like it's no big thing, right there in the thick...