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...explorer and award-winning author of Riding the Dragon's Back, about his first descent on China's Yangtze River, has led first river-boarding descents on 35 rivers worldwide. Bangs says that the rivers that cascade down such mountain ranges as the upward-thrusting Himalayas and Andes run rapidly continuously, leaving no room for human error. But the Zambezi gives boarders a chance to rest, "in that it has a beautifully designed sequence: a big rapid is almost always followed by a calm pool...
...that we had very significant issues in undergraduate education.” Now, Kirby said, “I see a Faculty that is much more engaged in undergraduate education than four years ago.” Kirby also said he was proud of the Faculty’s rapid growth under his watch—from 636 in 2002 to at least 700 this semester—as well as the expansion of the Faculty’s physical facilities. That expansion entailed enormous expenditures and produced a budget deficit in the tens of millions of dollars...
...wetsuit, helmet, lifejacket, fins and a body board with wrist leash. It's an irresistible challenge for river-boarding fanatics: a torrent of such force that it generates enough hydroelectricity to power both Zimbabwe and neighboring Zambia. Expert guides lead river boarders into violent Class IV and V rapids with dangerous drops and irregular currents and names like Stairway to Heaven and Oblivion; these waters are known to have flipped more inflatable rafts than any other rapids in the world. Then there's the wildlife: hippos' snouts break the surface of the water; baboon families clamber around at its edge...
Kirby also said he was proud of the Faculty’s rapid growth under his watch—from 636 in 2002 to at least 700 this semester—as well as the expansion of the Faculty’s physical facilities. That expansion entailed enormous expenditures and produced a budget deficit in the tens of millions of dollars for the Faculty...
...Tuxpan. Even his friends greet him with "What's up, gringo?" So Julio and Carlos spend a lot of time hanging out with other kids who, like them, are Americans in exile. There's Flor, 15, a cousin who also grew up in the Hamptons and speaks a rapid teenage patois. There's her boyfriend Luis, also 15, a basketball-crazy redhead who grew up outside L.A. "People get mad at us when we speak English together," says Julio. "They think we're trying to act all big. But it's just...