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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will award 267 doctorates of philosophy (Ph.D.), 187 master of the arts (A.M.), 29 master of science (S.M.) and one master of forest science (M.F.S.) degree to its students, according to Lynn Dunham, associate registrar. No master of engineering degrees will be awarded...
...policy-planning staff of U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright. But in July, as he has for the past 16 summers, he will pack his bags and disappear into the woods near Bemidji, Minn., where he will assume the identity of Karl, dean of Waldsee (lake in the forest), a village where everyone speaks German...
...will be roused and taken to an unlighted soccer field, where they will be instructed to wait for the sound of a horn. When it sounds, a torch-bearing stranger, dressed in medieval garb, will arrive to blindfold the young Schuler and lead them to the Marchenwald (fairy-tale forest), where they will be treated to a medieval German play...
...requirements are simple for hikers participating in next month's 18-day coed wilderness adventure in White Mountain National Forest and its environs. The teenagers must be in good physical condition and have some backpacking experience and a keen desire to learn new skills. On the first day, the guides will have no trouble spotting the less experienced ones among their eight charges. Though burdened with a 45-to-50-lb. backpack, the uninitiated typically try to forge ahead of their more experienced comrades. After the first breathless leg, however, they'll be pacing themselves like pros...
...course, these 14-to-17-year-olds won't be traversing the entire forest, which skips back and forth across the New Hampshire-Maine border. Most of the action in this $1400 program will occur in the rugged Mahoosuc Range. They'll construct "water bars" from felled timber or rocks to divert water from the trails, and create rock-filled wood boxes, called cribs, to raise the treadways above marsh lines. They may even repair the Appalachian Trail, which runs through the middle of the range...