Word: mayas
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...really enjoyed the game though, and I kept coming back. Those girls can play.” A member of the visiting team went up for a spike, revealing a strip of toned midriff. Bennett yelled something flattering in her direction. This caught the attention of Maya D. Simpson ’11, who was sitting a few rows away. Maya had short, choppy, jet-black hair, and wore a blood-red t-shirt. She turned to face Braddock, and from behind thick-rimmed glasses rolled her eyes incredulously. “I’m here to support...
...hand and foot at a seafront three-bedroom hideaway for five nights, before boarding a three-cabin luxury yacht, which counts a spa therapist and chef among the crew. You'll then be taken on a one-night cruise around Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Phi Phi, anchoring at Maya Bay - a location for the Danny Boyle movie The Beach. The next day, the yacht docks near Phuket Airport, and limousines whisk you on your onward journey. See www.trisara.com...
Those who recall the debates of Miles and Maya in Sideways (which, winemakers concur, has had a considerable influence on the popularity of Pinot) might remember that Pinot Noir can be unpredictable yet potentially spectacular. Part of the appeal lies in the fact that the vines thrive only on such steep slopes as Burgundy's 2-mile-wide (3 1/2 km), 30-mile-long (50 km) stretch of Cte d'Or (Burgundy and Pinot Noir are synonymous) and in just a few rocky pockets in such places as Australia, Canada, South America and Europe, along with Oregon's Willamette...
...whole idea of productive aging--getting an economic return on the accumulated knowledge and skills of what might be called the young old--has political steam and will probably surface on the presidential trail next year. "There are candidates on both sides giving this a lot of thought," says Maya MacGuineas, fiscal-policy director at the New American Foundation, a think tank that promotes new ideas. We're a long way from fully tapping this vast resource, says Marc Freedman, author of Encore: Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life. "But we're getting there," he adds...
...Pilloried by a professor for his depiction of the Maya, Mel Gibson told her to "f___ off" before she was tossed from a campus Apocalypto screening. Sniffs blog site THE SUPERFICIAL: "Nice to see his anger management classes ... paid off." They did! The old Mel would have blamed the Maya for all the wars in the world. SCORE...