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Patrick Taylor knows that first-hand. On Sunset Beach in North Carolina, he's selling a half-acre of marsh three-quarters of a mile from the beach. It has no amenities--no water or sewage. Taylor is not even sure what can be built on it. To reach an inlet, you'd have to build a long pier to cross the marsh. He's asking $20,000 for it, and even as Hurricane Floyd approached last week, Taylor was fielding calls from prospective buyers who had read his classified ad in out-of-state newspapers. "They know a good...
...book I'm reading now is Jim Bouton's "Ball Four," a first-hand account of Major League Baseball in the late 1960s. It was required reading for History 1653, "Baseball and American Society." It was actually a book I enjoyed reading for class, but I just didn't get the chance to finish it because the books kept coming, even though I wasn't ready for them...
...said the committee will be examining howbest to strengthen the links between theUniversity and HIID by, for example, putting moreHIID professors who have had first-hand experiencein the classroom...
...also went into three Starbucks stores in the Square--the one on Church Street, the one in the Garage, and the one next to Broadway Market as well as to one in Boston to observe Starbucks consumption first-hand...
...Saturday Night Live and Dave Foley of Newsradio. Director and co-writer Fleming has said the film will also focus quite a bit on the everyday lives of its teenage heroines. Clearly, then, he hopes to appeal to both the young WB set and to adults who remember Watergate first-hand...