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...diners to confront the otherness of the external world by centering the dining environment around a fabricated version of the natural world, a bizarre oasis (several artificial-looking plants and a fountain). It is an amateur echo of the Four Seasons' Autumn Room (where tables are centered around a "grove" of cherry blossoms and a reflecting pool), and the tangential similarity to Japanese gardens recalls the austere asceticism of the Seasons as well as Quincy's slightly more Orientalized vision. The effort can be soothing when the fountain is gurgling, but it mostly looks so out of place and deliberate...
...polar sun, in often subzero temperatures, the group will follow Peary's route from 88[degrees] to 90[degrees] north, climbing over walls of ice, crossing expanses of open water on ice blocks bound by ropes, skiing through clouds of drifting snow. Burton Meyer of Downers Grove, Ill., a retired toy designer, first crossed the North Pole with Northwest Passage at 69. Among his companions: a 16-year-old schoolgirl, one of only three women ever to reach the pole on foot. Meyer remembers everything about his trip, the second of 12 he's made with the company: "We traveled...
Despite solid representation from the foilists and a 5-3 upset of Princeton's Orsi Szotyory-Grove--who finished third at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association (IFA) Championships--by freshman Nicole Jarrett, the rolled, 22-10 and the Bulldogs followed suit topping Harvard...
...town knew members didn't always practice what was preached. They might have a food bank, might donate Christmas toys and Thanksgiving baskets, but long-term, hands-on care was left to government experts, the professional social workers. "We were like 911," says Wilhelmena Tucker, a volunteer from Foster Grove Baptist Church. "We would help in an emergency, but when the emergency was over, there was no follow...
...spent one night each in Grove City, PA, Big Rapids, MI, Eau Claire, WI, Bismarck, ND, and Glasgow, MT," he said...