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...also leaped to their death from the cliffs by the Pacific. So the second double suicide ignited fear of a chain reaction. (In fact, a few days later a 45-year-old woman jumped from the same spot but survived.) And among school administrators and families in this close-knit community, Amber's and Alicia's deaths also served as a reminder of how astonishingly fraught with danger the teenage years have become in America...
While many of us were disappointed to learn of our banishment to the bog, the shared experience of living away from our classmates made us into a tight-knit group and forged many close friendships. Preparing our dogsleds for the morning trek over the Cambridge tundra was a great bonding experience. Furthermore, Garden Street did not lack the wonderful diversity of the Yard community. A conservative Filipino-American from the lovely garden state of "New Joisie," I found myself living with a wacky West Coast liberal from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated...
Rudenstine always articulates his vision of a more closely-knit university with words like "coordination" and "cooperation" but never "centralization"--a word that many here fear. Even though the schools are now encouraged to work together, the idea of a strong central authority is still taboo...
...students are largely the children of the adolescents and youth of the 1960s--told me that her parents have been rock-ribbed conservative Republicans all her life; and so she was astonished last summer to discover packed away in the basement of her home a rug into which was knit the visage of John F. Kennedy...
EVIE ROSEN, 69; WAUSAU, WIS.; retired needlework-shop owner Disheartened by news stories about the homeless, Rosen wanted to do something to help: "Almost every home has little balls of yarn. I thought if we all could knit 7-in. by 9-in. rectangles, we could stitch them together and make a lot of afghans." She started Warm Up America in 1992, getting the word out to churches, retirement homes and craft shops. Last year, with help from other organizations, the group distributed 16,000 afghans...