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...block. "I love deadlines," Adams once said. "I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." Adams learned to avoid reality around age 5, when his parents divorced. Tall, shy and unathletic, he longed to be John Cleese, star of the Monty Python troupe. Adams had the height (hitting his full 1.91 m as a teen) and a taste for clowning. So when he went off to Cambridge he gravitated, as his hero had a dozen years earlier, to the university's famed Footlights drama society. Improbably, he ran into Cleese in a London Underground station, introduced himself...
...victim reported that one suspect was a six-foot-tall white male, 18-22 years of age, wearing a gray fleece jacket with a hood. The other suspect was a black male of similar height and weight, wearing a black jacket with a hood, he said...
...smoking room, or a gentleman’s club from long ago. It’s called the “library” because of the beautiful dark-wood bookcases built into the wall of the common room. It also boasts massive windows nearly twice the height of its occupants, Eugene M. Simuni ’04, who is also a Crimson editor, and Boris Gokhfeld ’04. The two are Lowell affiliates but Gokhfeld is adamant that their room is “a lot nicer than anything you can get in Lowell...
...parents, courtesy of the NCMEC: Take lots of pictures of your kids. Photos work when it comes to finding children, says Allen, and it's very important for families to have recent, full-face photos of their children, as well as accurate information about their hair color, weight, height and any distinguishing physical characteristics. Parents may also want to keep dental and medical records on hand in a safe place. This can speed up the process, and this is a situation where every hour counts. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within the first three...
...inestimable amount of money, especially for those regions that rely economically on their renewable natural resources. Even planting new trees will not solve this problem; new trees actually emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb and do not have the root structure to as effectively prevent erosion or the height to provide a sufficient canopy for life underneath. The economic benefits of logging are uncertain at best, while the environmental effects will certainly harm the long-term interests of the region, and America as a whole...