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Scientists don't know how large the Asian carp population would need to get before it becomes self-sustaining and morphs from nuisance into true threat. And some doubt the fish will ever make it into the lakes, given their need to spawn in long, fast-flowing rivers like the Illinois. "It might be 20 to 25 years before they really establish themselves," says Duane Chapman, a research fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "We don't know for sure that we'll have any problems to speak...
...film centers on a couple, Parker and Dan, and Dan’s long-time best friend Joe, as the three go skiing for a weekend. They try to squeeze in one last run at the end of the day, but a mix up leaves them stranded on a ski lift. The trio soon realize they are trapped, as no one will return to the mountain for days. They are too high to safely jump and it’s too dangerous for them to climb across the lift cable, leaving them in a seemingly hopeless predicament...
...Frozen” has received some polarizing critical comments from the Hollywood press. “When people see the trailer,” Green explains, “they automatically become Spiderman, stating all the ways they could escape. Critics make their decisions long before they see the movie. And when they see it and see the fact that all their ideas don’t work, then they get defensive...
...suffocating pretension and talking out of your ass? Yeah. Well, apparently, students at these places are starting to realize that these breeding grounds of eternal douchebaggery might not be so worth it after all. At Princeton, nearly half of all freshmen enrolled in HUM 216-219, the year-long, four-course freshman humanities sequence, have dropped it. According to The Daily Princetonian, 43 freshmen enrolled at the beginning of last semester, but only 26 are still registered for the course. The reasons? Most students, according to The Princetonian, are frustrated with the course’s "pace," with one student...
Whether it’s an overbearing workload, the death-march pace of classes with gargantuan reading lists, my own lackadaisical demeanor, or books that are three hundred pages too long, I constantly find myself tossing aside several unfinished books each semester. I like to think that I read more carefully and thoughtfully than other students, that it just takes me longer to read a book satisfactorily and that there isn’t enough time to finish everything. But my rationalization often ignores the embarrassing truth...