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Every year hundreds of people die while living life to the fullest - battling white-water rapids, climbing the world's tallest mountain peak, descending to the depths of the ocean. These extreme sports are inherently dangerous and you take your chances. Or do you? "One of the things about these high-risk activities is that if you're going to participate in them you assume a certain kind of risk," says Prof. Lyrissa Lidsky, who teaches tort law at the University of Florida. In the case of Groh, the question is whether the tour operator failed to use reasonable care...
...striving to conceptualize an unseen world. The key to this—or, rather, the key to one of the many consecutive locked doors leading to this—seems to be that of painstaking observation: unlocking the imagination lies in seeing, hearing, and feeling the world to its fullest. But Millhauser’s stories only nudge his readers toward certain themes that may or may not enlighten them. Divided under three headings, his stories are introduced by an “Opening Cartoon,” a story of a cat-and-mouse chase reminiscent of a psychologically...
...texture. “Lovecraft in Brooklyn” is another good example of how much Darnielle’s style has evolved: whereas in previous albums various other instruments would be thrown in to create the illusion of a studio band, here every element is used to its fullest potential. The song’s focal point is a distorted electric guitar part that approaches heaviness, but the rest of the track is filled out with nuances, from whining violins that swoop over the energetic drumbeat to pick-scrapes and harmonics. The studio allows Darnielle to explore rock music...
...necessarily have to be involved in organized sports.“I think the quote is ‘physical vigor’ or something like that,” Blattler joked, “‘the energy to use one’s ability to the fullest as best exemplified by a fondness for and success in athletics’ or something like that.”Needless to say, Blattler has the whole package.In addition to vaulting, the Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator spends most of her hours either in the lab or playing music recreationally...
...Henry Adams once remarked that the four years he passed at Harvard College “were, for his purposes, wasted.” I pray this not be true today. On behalf of the student body, I pledge our fullest support and our confidence in your abilities to guide this University. We’ve got work...