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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dress code is a lot more rigid than when I was there. You had to wear a dress or skirt that was mid-calf, six inches below the knee at least. And you had to wear long sleeves and something with a high neck. You just had to have everything covered. And then we weren't allowed to cut our hair and there were particular hairstyles we had to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Polygamy Survivor Carolyn Jessop | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...Illinois highway for six years. We had two cats we brought with us from the city, Zippy and Zorro; the latter had been hanged and tortured by gang members before we adopted him. He was missing a little chip of one ear, had the hair rubbed off his neck, and wouldn’t let anyone within a couple of feet of him. When we moved, he ran away for a week, but after my mom rode her bike around the complex he showed up at our door. It was a Stanley-Livingston moment of feline proportions: Zorro, I presume...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cat Lady in Training | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...setting bushes and trees on fire. I said to myself, I can't [stay here]. A tree might fall on the car and trap everybody. So I slammed the door and ran to the car. I got hit by a hailstorm of flaming embers. They burned my arms, my neck and my legs. By then there were fires everywhere on the street. I couldn't see five feet in front of me. My wife [got into her car] and yelled that she'd meet me at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Evacuation at Dawn | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...diagnosis of scabies is traumatic enough without the social stigma. The inevitable questions from roommates (“You hooked up with a freshman?”) or significant others (“Skin-to-skin contact with whom?”) might just have been worse than the neck-to-toe treatment. Yet some silver lining emerged. “I got caught in the line leaving Lamont” was booted out as number one excuse for being late to tutorial in favor of, “I just found out my roommate has scabies...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: I’ve Got An Itch | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...three games in Cleveland. Hershiser remembers carrying what he calls a "tool kit" to the mound in freezing temperatures. Since the cold dries out your hands, it's harder for a pitcher to grip the ball. To try to counteract that, Hershiser says he would poor water down his neck, under his uniform, in the dugout between innings. Then while out on the mound, he'd reach a hand under his collar to keep his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Series Prediction: Cold | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

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