Word: rivers
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First and foremost, the teams change. In the regular season you play the teams in your division twice and begin to get familiar with teams in the other division. Then the playoffs start and that river team you beat by 35 during the regular season--remember the one with no one over 5'9" on the entire squad--shows up with two 6'8", 260-pound guys with range and some sweet post moves. Yeah, the ringers come out--those guys that didn't think the regular season was worth the trouble...
...Whaler's Inn--More of a revamped country hotel than a quaint B&B, this three-building complex lies on the banks of the Mystic River. Its central location is welcome for the weary traveller and its much acclaimed Italian restaurant Bravo Bravo is a selling point for the hungry...
...wide variety ranges from Mao's "Little Red Book" to the more contemporary "Phony Communism is Dead...Long Live Real Communism!" I have never purchased anything at Revolution Books; thus, it has never directly benefited me. If it were to go out of business I would not cry a river...
...dead of the night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident...
...Annan flew to the Iraqi capital aboard a Falcon 900 jet lent to him by French President Jacques Chirac. The deceptively soft-spoken Ghanaian listened for two days as the Iraqis pressed their position. On Sunday, Feb. 22, in the massive Republican Palace on the banks of the Tigris River, he calmly closed a deal with Saddam Hussein. There would be no bombing, at least not now. There was a global sigh of relief...