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Even before he began the Vasaloppet (Vasa Run), Sweden's gut-racking cross-country skiing championship, Farmer Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis...
...excessive and ridiculous antipathy against the Social Relations Department and its concentrators by members of other departments, especially the humanities, is certainly in part a defensive romanticization of the values and motives of these fields, but it is a reaction in part rationalized by calling Social Relations a "gut." It is true that the field has not attracted predominantly high caliber students in the past...
...higher standards for concentration. The change for honors candidates requiring six full courses, including a graduate course, will certainly decrease the number of concentrators in the field and send some of the less serious students back to other fields such as English and Government, previously regarded as the "gut" fields...
...more likely to be crushed than a bucket of water lowered into the depths." Damage can occur only when there is an unequalized difference of pressure-and that means where there is air, i.e., in the lungs and airways, paranasal sinuses and the middle ear. (Gas in the gut gives no trouble because the supple intestinal walls simply contract to equalize the pressure...
...Fulhams hope that some of the peaks and valleys of supply and demand will be flattened by "freezing in the round"-a method devised by the Fish and Wildlife Service to enable trawlers to gut and freeze fish at sea, stay out while the fishing is good, thus build up inventories that will tide them over slack periods (the Fulhams' contribution: a method of part-thawing, preparing and refreezing the fish, which they say preserves flavor). They have offered Boston's fishermen substantial loans to modernize the fleet, and plan to revive the Boston whiting fishery, which suffered...