Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STICKS OUT HER NECK...
Bacterial meningitis is the more serious form of the disease and can be transmitted by person-to-person contact. Symptoms may include a sudden fever, severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, a stiff neck and a rash. The brain can suffer permanent damage if swelling is not controlled...
When he casually draped his arm over her, other students began to take notice. But when he progressed to neck-nibbling and kissing, a faint giggle arose from the balcony. We've heard of public displays of affection. We've even witnessed some pretty egregious cases. But we've never seen anyone getting it on in clear view of over 800 people and a world-renowned professor...
...roommate Sarah E. Kennedy '01 put her hair in her roommates' hands, trusting novice cutters with her coiffure, and met with near-tragic results. What began as a routine hair-cut soon went disastrously awry with the creation of a 3-inch long "ridge" near the nape of her neck. Her already-short hair now had a conspicuously short layer in back. What caused the Ridge? Yin explains that "we didn't have the proper implements. We had a large pair of desk scissors that are for cutting paper." Yin--who had no prior haircutting experience--deferred to their other...
...road more than half of each month, Mitraud, who is single, shuttles between crusades to repair Brazil's rain forests, its fragile Atlantic archipelagoes or the rapidly disappearing central savannas. A coffee-guzzling eco-evangelist with a pendant shaped like an endangered sea turtle dangling from her neck, Mitraud converts farmers, miners and housewives to viable but more ecologically sustainable livelihoods, such as ecotourism. She has the abrupt professionalism of a Harvard M.B.A. and the urgency of a woman who is sprinting madly against a clock. It is an often joyless existence, as she fights for the hearts and minds...