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The lame excuses for shockingly poor performance by these same individuals and their loose talk about the long-range merely serves to obfuscate real issues. It attempts to hide inexcusable blunders of the last five to six years by "averaging" them with previous more acceptable performances. This is nothing less...
It was late summer or autumn -- evidenced by the sloeberry, which was then in season -- and a sudden storm and drop in temperature while the Iceman was crossing the crest may have forced him to take refuge in a basin 3 m to 5 m (10 ft. to 16 ft...
The last refuge of mealtime smokers went up in smoke yesterday when Dunster House officials informed students that their practice was banned, effective today.
The millennium is almost by definition a moment of extreme possibilities, arousing fantasies that veer wildly between earthly paradise and annihilation. "The human mind abhors a vacuum," says Michael Barkun, a political ; scientist at the University of Syracuse. "Where certainties are absent, we make do with probabilities, and where probabilities...
It was in the lord's castle too that peasants and their flocks sought refuge from wolf packs and barbarian invaders. In 999, however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile...