Word: diversity
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Michael, from Wisconsin, who is about 40, has a subsistence job taking care of animals in a pet store. He guesses that 5% to 10% of the Rainbows are street people or rural itinerants. Some are "Dumpster divers," who scrounge for food behind restaurants and supermarkets. A larger number live...
The dark and forbidding depths of the Gulf of Mexico, once frequented by only the hardiest of sea creatures, are now alive with human activity. Miniature submarines and robot-like vehicles prowl the ocean bottom while divers wend their way around incredible underwater structures -- taller than Manhattan skyscrapers but almost...
Harvard's divers didn't perform up to pre-season expectations, but still managed to dominate both the 1-meter and 3-meter events against the overmatched Lions and Midshipmen.
The Crimson divers were able to pick up 23 out of 38 possible points against Navy, while Harvard amassed 30 points against Columbia.
The modern-day craze had its origins in 1979, when members of Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club, having read about the land divers, put on tuxedoes and top hats and dropped from the Golden Gate Bridge. Among early devotees were two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman of Palo Alto...