Word: mountains
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Meanwhile, such basic information as how many people are on a given payroll and how many faculty are tenured or untenured is difficult to retrieve without a mountain of paper Proctor says Even the highest ranking of Harvard's deans have to slog through these processes...
...hiker on a mountain path, for example, sees a long, curved shape in the grass out of the corner of his eye. He leaps out of the way before he realizes it is only a stick that looks like a snake. Then he calms down; his cortex gets the message a few milliseconds after his amygdala and "regulates" its primitive response...
Directly behind A Shau, a mountain loomed over us. I pointed toward it, and Hieu said with a grin, "Laos." From that mountainside, the enemy could almost roll rocks down onto us. I wondered why the base had been established in such a vulnerable spot...
...University of Hertfordshire, where he studies literature. The two men, both British, carry green fatigues in waterproof bags. They have short haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen-better, seen-worse expression, speaks nothing but rich, working-class Sussex. Someone says, "Cheers," Baker revs the outboard and the little inflatable, low in the water, rocks away on the swell, towing the kayaks toward Mururoa. The air is still, and for 10 minutes more the whine...
...particular, have seized on the white separatist's cause now that five top FBI officials have been suspended while they are investigated on charges of a once-unthinkable coverup. "These hearings are trying to find out three things," reports senior writer Richard Lacayo. "First, what really happened on that mountain. Second, and centrally, who approved the revised rules of engagement. The FBI orders allowed agents to shoot any armed male. Regulations ordinarily allow deadly force only in the case of an immediate threat to the agent or another agent. And, lastly, the extent of any FBI coverup." Last month...