Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When applying for aid, however, don't assume that you can go around collecting scholarships from different sources outside the college and still get the same amount from the financial-aid office. Sparlha Swaby of Oyster Bay, N.Y., won a combined $12,000 in scholarship monies and assumed it would simply be tacked onto the more than $20,000 in grants she was getting from Stanford. But Stanford's policy at the time (it has since been changed) was to count that outside help against its own contribution--and so reduced the total awarded Sparlha by more than...
RECREATION Guests are expected to join fitness sessions, oyster roasts and beach walks along the shores of Hilton Head...
...bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic penguins; Pacific-coast pools with a kelp forest, frolicking sea otters and flying oyster catchers; and an Indian Ocean coral reef with pygmy angelfish and giant clams...
...rock group Blue Oyster Cult admonishes listeners: "don't fear the reaper." It's a pretty refrain but certainly easier said than done. This comes from someone who recently rehearsed her own funeral...
...like the parents who have found their way to Outer Maroo, is disoriented for much of the novel, menaced by half-understood threats, never sure what ground is solid. The horror here is peeked at slantwise, through a girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that in the end Oyster gratified his inflamed ego with mass suicide. The author's story, of course, is a rough match with remembered headlines--of Waco...