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...President recently declared much of California a major disaster area due to massive storms that have caused roughly $300 million worth of damage to more than 20 counties; Western ski resorts are suffering from a lack of snow and the Northeast is experiencing one of its most pleasant winters in recent memory (today's Nor'Easter notwithstanding). If El Niño could be explained and understood, it would be possible to blame or praise it; nonetheless, most meteorologists in the country as well as most civilians are using El Niño as their justification for current trends...
...school like ours, a need to escape becomes increasingly intense. The institution as a whole seems more concerned with its library books than with undergraduate advising, or any other specifically undergraduate benefit for that matter. So while life may become more pleasant over the eight semesters, it is never easy...
...Harvard player had more than two turnovers, a pleasant surprise coming from a team fresh off a two-week-plus break that entered the game averaging over 20 turnovers per game...
None of which will make it any easier to watch the pleasant, earnestly friendly Tucker become the 145th person killed since Texas resumed the death penalty in 1982. She has said repeatedly in interviews that she is "far removed" from the person who committed the crime. But she is the person almost certain...
...example, is one of van Gogh's Irises, and that room had its own line, stretching more than an hour and all the way across the main pavilion. Why? It turns out the interlocking gallery spaces of the Getty have an air-conditioning system that could not keep rooms pleasant and the paintings safe with so many people in the building. Other rooms were sweltering while the pavilion floor holding the Irises was simply shut off and regulated. The Getty seemed also to suffer for its newness as well as its popularity; one docent told me to "look around...