Word: midnighters
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...early 1970s, he remembers, the orchestra played a midnight concert which also drew a sell-out crowd full of undergrads...
Beginning at midnight this Sunday, students will be able to evaluate courses online anytime before May 18. The switch to a paperless system marks a key moment in the reform of the evaluation process underway in the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), including a re-examination of evaluation questions themselves...
...centerpiece of A Prairie Home Companion is a very long monologue, or out-of-body experience, in which Keillor, his low, breathy voice achieving sonorities like those of a train whistle in the distance at midnight, gives the news from a tiny, some say imaginary, Minnesota farm hamlet called Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve." The same sturdy but hard-to-find settlement is the subject of Keillor's new book, Lake Wobegon Days (Viking; $17.95), a pack of beguiling lies that has been on the New York Times best-seller list...
...since the building of the Alaska oil pipeline has a construction project posed more daunting challenges. In parts of the desert where daytime temperatures reach a scorching 120° F, work shifts began under lights at midnight, and liquid nitrogen was used to cool some of the 2.1 million cu. yds. of concrete poured. To allay environmental concerns, engineers built walkways across parts of the canals for the use of cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome...
...miles and $79 for those over 1,500. Such fares, which give travelers a coast-to-coast round trip for just $158, represent savings of as much as 85%. The deal contained several catches, notably that customers must depart on Thanksgiving Day or Friday and return by midnight Saturday...