Word: peninsulas
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...college, knows as much about meteorology and oceanography as most scientists. But he started out as a surfer who kept on wondering why great waves were so hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes...
...Castle Hill--Built as a summer home for the renowned scientist Alexander Agassiz, this large, castlesque inn stands in proud isolation from the chaotic Newport center. Situated on a private forty-acre peninsula with its own private beach...
Like many religious groups, we are concerned by the perversion of faith and the manipulation of religion for adverse purposes. We are interested in working with campus religious groups to answer religious intolerance of every kind, from the theocratic rants of the Peninsula to the ill-disguised homophobia of the Harvard Law School Society for "Life, Law, and Religion...
...Taken together, these threads weave a story that begins 80 years ago and winds forward through venues as varied as a high-security lab in Ames, Iowa, the ancient tissue collections of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington and a frozen mass grave on Alaska's Seward Peninsula...
...Angeles and being at Harvard, my universe has been populated by people of a variety of shades and colors, from a wide range of religions and upbringings. The Spanish are much more homogenous. The vast majority can trace their ancestry back many centuries on the Iberian peninsula. Catholicism is integral to their culture and has been for ages. There are regional variations in cuisine, language and traditions but it is not the type of diversity that surrounds us here...