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...Aiken, S.C., a sprawling nuclear-processing plant where the Federal Government stores some 35 million gal. of radioactive waste. It was the largest employer in South Carolina, and the jobs paid well. The Hightowers saw themselves as team players, partakers in the co-prosperity of a racially segregated but placid Southern town. Says Willar Hightower: "People get along for the most part...
...went into the weekend knowing that we could have finished anywhere from fourth to 11th, but I don't think that we expected [to finish as high as we did]," said Higdon, whose team went on to sweep Colgate in the quarterfinals for a semifinal berth to Lake Placid. "All we wanted to do was go out and put two wins on the board like we did and let everything else take care of itself...
...over No. 10 Yale the next afternoon did offer a certain amount of comfort, especially for the four seniors who have been the sacrificial lambs for a rebuilding program. Throughout their careers, Harvard has posted an unusually dismal 46-65-8 record and has made it to Lake Placid only two of the four years...
...town and its surroundings. Daniel A. Montilla '99 and K. Valentine Cadieux '98 spent three hours in the local supermarket, talking to area residents about their views on ecology and the local community. Mary M. Berlik '99 and Thomas Y. Kuo '99 interviewed the head of the Lake Placid Chamber of Commerce to learn about the economy, and special student Amina Ismail and teaching fellow Lauren Alexander posed as prospective homebuyers to ask local realtors about home prices and prime housing lot locations...
...groups represented three distinct approaches for addressing local ecological and social issues. One group designed a park for ecotourism and habitat preservation. The second clustered lakefront development along one lake, Lake Josephine, and encouraged development of housing in converted ranchlands. The remaining group took an integrated approach towards Lake Placid as an ecological community, planning multi-income housing and recreational areas, converting agricultural land uses and altering lake-use patterns...