Word: rhode
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Imagine an area the size of the state of Rhode Island with only one wagon track crossing its vast emptiness, an 860,000-acre wildlife refuge in Arizona's Sonoran Desert along the Mexican border that comprises 56 miles of what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls the "loneliest international boundary in the continent." In fact, you'll have to imagine it, because while that description of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge still appears on its web site, there are now 1,200 miles of illegal roads and footpaths created by drug smugglers and illegal immigrants scarring...
...accordance with federal regulations. But these are too few to conduct follow up inspections with any regularity, says ATF. After receiving an initial license, many vendors are never inspected for compliance again. "No matter where you stand on new gun laws," says Congressman Patrick Kennedy, a Democrat from Rhode Island, "the laws currently on the books need to be enforced...
...month in Annapolis, Md.Despite being the host school, the teams actually raced down the Charles River at MIT. Twelve teams pre-qualified to compete at the championship team race, which featured three sets of round-robin elimination races.In the first set, two round robin races eliminated Rhode Island, Boston University, Brown and MIT from contention. Though eight schools remained, it had already become clear that the regatta would end up being a four-team competition.“As the regatta progressed, it was apparent that four teams were equally good,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said.Another round...
...team finished third overall at the Northeast Invitational in Portsmouth, R.I., this weekend as freshman Greg Shuman and sophomore Mike Shore tied for second place in the individual competition. The Crimson shot 299 on Saturday, adding to a 153 on Friday for a total score of 452. Eventual champion Rhode Island won the tournament with a 446, a mere six shots ahead of Harvard, and Sacred Heart took second with a 449. In addition to its regular five-player squad, the Crimson sent two golfers—Shore and senior captain Tom Hegge—to Portsmouth to compete...
Over the next six hours we talked about the most eccentric things that two complete strangers could possibly discuss (plus the kids slept the entire time—maybe they overdosed?). I learned that Kurt was an artist in Rhode Island whose wife was a clothing designer. I told him about my concentration and how it was completely random and did not fit into anything I would ever consider doing in life, and how honestly, at a place like Harvard, that lack of direction made me anxious. We discussed crushes and boyfriends, (more about) first-loves and marriage. We talked...