Word: knitting
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...Tiny schools with a few hundred students or less may be daunting to some; if your idea of college is lots of keggers and skeezy nights you can't tell your parents about, you may want a bit more anonymity. But for those looking for four years of close-knit community, wee colleges come in many flavors. The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (68 students) in Merrimack, N.H., offers a rigorous Catholic education. The College of the Atlantic (278 students) in Bar Harbor, Maine, has an additional intimacy built into its curriculum, because all students share the same crunchy...
...homes on the leafy, quiet street. The house is one of several that were raided by British police Wednesday night. Whether any of the resulting 24 arrests came from this property, the police won't confirm, although local politicians are calling the raids a blow to the close-knit multi-ethnic community. While neighbors say the house's occupants seemed nice enough, they don't know much about them: some say three brothers live there; others claim it's a married couple. The only reasonable reaction to the possibility that terrorists could be living next door is surprise...
Damascus is my favorite Middle Eastern city. I love it not only for what locals call in English its "touristic" qualities, but also for the ones that remind me of my home in Iowa: both societies share an appreciation for tight-knit families and lifetime friendships; socially conservative "family values"; and traditional comfort foods, with shish taouk and mezze standing in for the steak and salad dinners that dominated Iowa's menus when I was a child...
...This bug has gone from 0 to 60, not in five seconds but in about five years," says Elizabeth Bancroft, a medical epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. "It spreads by contact, so if it gets into any community that's fairly close-knit, that's all it needs to be passed...
...dream was to play in the Elvis Room, where they only needed 20 minutes of music to get a gig. “We never got 20 minutes. We didn’t even have a bass player or a singer,” she says. Knitting is another passion of hers. During the past winter, Scott participated in the Olympics’ knitting competition. Knitting Olympians chose a project that was “an achievable challenge” that they began at opening ceremonies and had to complete by the time the Olympic flame is extinguished.Her late partner?...