Word: mammothly
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Even though Justin C. Denham `02 has made the physical move from his hometown of Mammoth Lakes in toasty southern California to chilly New England, he has yet to switch his wardrobe. "The temperature is colder, but I'm addicted [to wearing shorts]. I'm going to hold on as long as I can. It's going to have to get a lot colder for me to change," says determined Denham, who wore pants only once last year--to his high school graduation. "When my legs are covered, it feels weird," he says. Denham's roommate Dalidor E. Snyder...
...these names rested in quiet solitude yesterday in the serene alcove of the Memorial Room tucked away in Memorial Church. Nine mammoth stone panels grace three walls of the room, listing the names, ringed by the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell: "While a bright future beckoned, they freely gave their lives and fondest hopes for us and our allies that we might learn from them...
This week, in 70 cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Athens, Ga., environmentalists plan to stage a "Day of Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...Higher Education Act, a mammoth piece of legislation that spends much of its 700 pages on increases in student aid, cleared the Senate yesterday afternoon after getting House approval Monday. President Clinton is expected to sign the bill into...
Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than...