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...right base for such ventures is a handsome and well-run lodge on Ambergris Cay called El Pescador, which has all the best guides -- and a welcoming committee of two ospreys that have built their nest above its pier and greet the arriving angler with shrill wheep-wheep-wheeps of alarm. El Pescador was built by a German, Juergen Krueger, and his Wisconsin-born wife. They started it about 18 years ago, when no sober carpenter could be hired on the cay. Much of the work, from laying cinder blocks to routing the panels in the heavy mahogany doors...
...youngsters will rush to greet the returning parent with open arms. Children under age five often hold back or cry. Teenagers are "unpredictable as ever," says Fink. Experts advise that children be warned in advance that Mom or Dad may act and even look a little different. Rereading letters from the front can also help them prepare for the reunion...
...Orientation Week doesn't also welcome the other newcomers to the school? Transfer students should at least be notified of the information sessions and formal get-togethers run by the University during that time. In the few Orientation Week activities that do exist for transfer students, College administrators repeatedly greet them with the message: Keep quiet and just be thankful you're here. Indeed, one transfer student, when inquiring about credits during her first week here, was met with the response, "Harvard is the best university in the world. You shouldn't even expect us to accept credits from another...
...makan: the Arabic language is capable of magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does...
...islanders have become dependent on the outside world for most of their food and supplies. Though their diet continues to rely heavily on fish and fruit, they have also begun to appreciate Coca Cola ("le Coca") and bubblegum. Once a week people gather at the tiny airport to greet the plane that carries the week's supply of baguettes...