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...formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...beyond these relatively small outlays, Harvard can not pour much more support into the lab, because the amount needed would represent a quantum leap over what any university could realistically afford...
...everyone who has made the mad leap into parenthood knows, it is not the first child but the second whose arrival skews life into a grotesque caricature of its former civility. When Bombeck was several months pregnant with Andrew, the family moved to a tract development a few miles from Dayton that she was to satirize as "Suburbian Gems." Its real name is Centerville. The Bombecks lived on Cushwa Drive ("probably named for some dentist") in a house like all the others except for one prized interior feature, a $1,500 "two-way" fireplace, and on the outside, a front...
...flocks) filed into the canyons and the chase began. A border patrolman looking through an infrared nightscope at a hillside spotted four human shapes and summoned a helicopter hovering over a nearby ravine, but by the time the chopper arrived they were gone. Another agent was about to leap out of his truck and arrest three illegals in Moody's Canyon when his radio crackled out news of bigger game: a dozen immigrants heading toward the fields abutting Otay Mesa Road. The patrolman gunned his Ram along rutted dirt paths, dodging boulders placed by pollos to slow him down...
Since that legislation went into effect, the number of students studying outside of Harvard has leapt dramatically, according to Margot N. Gill, associate director in charge of study abroad at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. This year there was a 54 percent leap in the number of students studying abroad for credit. And the students came from 31 different concentrations, Gill notes...