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...We’re considering using a sliding schedule throughout the academic year and moving the service towards the dusk hours in the winter but then moving it back when the days get longer and it’s not dark so early,” McLoughlin said...
...safety needs. The plan currently calls for roaming pairs of students beginning at 7 p.m. in three regions: the River Houses, the Yard and the Quad. But with three of the nine recent assaults occurring before 7 p.m., the escorts would be more effective if they began patrolling at dusk instead—hours earlier in the winter. Furthermore, given the huge area included in the River House and Quad zones, HUCEP ought to employ more than one pair of escorts in each of these zones...
...when she went on calls with her father into the bush, where people would gather before sunrise to await them, Teresa saw what were the grim realities of life for most people in the country. To swim at dawn or dusk was to risk malaria; the slightest malady, left untreated, could become a death sentence. And she knew the menacing side of even a privileged existence under a dictatorship. Her father wouldn't let his criticisms of the government's repressive economic and racial policies go beyond the family dinner table. She went away to college in South Africa, where...
...Instead, we were the guests?and not particularly welcome ones. As we headed out of the park at dusk, the track meandered within meters of a knot of females guarding their young. Two of the great animals then wheeled about and gave chase in a surprising burst of speed. The bigger of the two got within trunk-swiping distance of our jeep as we cowered and shouted. Fortunately, the track flattened out and we were able to floor it, to a chorus of furious trumpeting...
These aides, who often interact with Summers from dawn to dusk...