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...They were imaginary in the sense that they were written into existence by the writers of the Golden Girls. But they were real in the sense that I loved them...
...lowland areas move up, they tend not to be replaced. That means that we may see a reduction in overall biodiversity and what scientists call "species richness." Meanwhile, species that already live at the highest elevations have no place to go, except perhaps to extinction. Case in point: the Golden Toad, which lived in the high-altitude cloud forests of Costa Rica and suddenly went extinct. Its disappearance may be due in part to warming, which made its habitat unlivable...
...Cornell and found itself up 2-0 just minutes in. A long throw from the right side found the head of junior Andre Akpan in the box. Akpan flicked the ball into the path of Stamatis, who nestled it into the bottom left corner.Two minutes later Akpan missed a golden opportunity to put the Crimson three goals up when he volleyed over from eight yards out. Despite not getting onto the scoresheet, Akpan was central in all of Harvard’s attacks, winning the ball in the air and holding up play.The Crimson seemed to ease...
With their overly flamboyant evening dresses, the clothing lines of former model and fashion designer Eletra Casadei marked the excess of the 1980s. Some of the clothes even appeared on two of the decade's most popular TV shows, The Golden Girls and Dynasty. In the '90s, however, Casadei--along with others in the industry--took a different tack. She began re-creating dresses worn by celebrities at awards shows and selling them at marked-down prices, starting a furor in the high-end fashion world over copyright law. Still, her work continued to gain a following for its affordability...
Tourist Jack Golden remembers a recent trip to China for all the wrong reasons. Golden, of Lenox, Mass., had a prostate condition that required medical treatment during a Yangtze River cruise. He had to endure an invasive procedure without anesthesia at a small, gritty hospital in Fengdu, an ancient city on the river's north bank. And that was the easy part. "The Chinese accept it because this is what they have," he says...