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...exciting to see all the student groups out here celebrating environmental awareness and involvement,” said Faon M. O’Connor ’08, co-chair of Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC). Neighborhood establishments such as Harvest Supermarkets also turned out to hawk their wares and spread their environmentally friendly message. “This is our first time coming to Earth Day here at Harvard,” said Chris Durkin, Director of Membership and Community Relations at Harvest. “It’s a good opportunity to meet students...
...California's Edwards Air Force Base, slim, hawk-nosed Test Pilot Scott Crossfield, 37, leisurely finished a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, struggled into a silver-tinted pressure suit that had been tailored to a skintight fit by a girdle manufacturer. Minutes later, Crossfield strapped himself into the cramped cockpit of a needle-nosed, stub-winged plane that was locked into place beneath the right wing of an Air Force B-52 bomber. At 8 o'clock sharp the B-52 roared down the runway and lifted. It carried with it Scott Crossfield in the X-15 rocket-plane ? designed...
...Even some once steadfast boycott proponents, including radio DJs in Los Angeles, seem to be softening their stance. It's a tough call for those who want to heed - or perhaps hawk - the call to action, but who do not want to unravel their ties with local industries, schools and churches. Gabriel Gonzalez of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights says they are strongly encouraging people to walk out of school and work that day to support the larger movement - but not to stop shopping: "We don't want to hurt the business community...
...interested in bodybuilding and "thought selling things was kind of cool," says the California Governor. So, as is common for high school students in Austria, where Schwarzenegger grew up, he enrolled in a training program for sales. "It inspired me," says the man who went on to hawk physical fitness and action movies. Lately, Schwarzenegger has been an enthusiastic marketer of vocational education, a combination of career training and academics offered in high school that has been in and out of favor in the U.S. since the 1970s...
...Broadway side is taken by the mandatory snooty blond, Sharpay (Ashleey Tisdale), who calls the Garofalesque composer of the show a "sawed-off Sondheim" and sees it as her mission "to save the world from people who don't know the difference between a Tony Award and Tony Hawk." When Sharpay asks, with haughty sarcasm, "Did you ever see Michael Crawford on a cereal box?", most kids will have to Google the joke, or ask their parents...