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...those rising waters--26 billion gal.--lap menacingly just blocks from the center of town and 360 ft. below the rim of the pit, threatening one day to spill into an underground aquifer and send a tide of contaminants seeping into neighborhoods and creeks across the Summit Valley. Some people are concerned about a shroud of morning mist and fog--a product of the lake--that envelops parts of the town. "All that moisture has to be carrying bad things in it," says worried restaurateur Buck Loomis...
...while I thought it was me and my glasses prescription preventing me from seeing the blackboards in the distance of the Science Center lecture halls or, more alarmingly, the books on my lap as I sat in my bedroom. The weak light of the overhead fixture's faint beams of light were blurring the letters even at nose-distance from the page. Yet if the problem stretched beyond my room, I figured, there would be signs...
...incredible because we just decided to run for fun, and it wasn't like a huge hype like Heps had been the week beforehand," said freshman Brenda Taylor. "None of us was nervous, and we just were going to go run. [Junior] Heather [Hanson] ran a lot faster opening lap--a second faster--than she ran the week before. It was amazing, we just came together as a team...
...gorgeous," Tsai said. "You can bring your lap top there and every single table has an outlet and data jack...
...tapes of themselves commentating on games. These tapes are then reviewed and critiqued by the more seasoned sportscasters. Almost every member of the WHRB sports staff has at least one absurd tale of sitting alone at a football, hockey, or basketball game, screaming into a tape recorder on his lap...