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...teacher and student sit cross-legged, facing each other on the floor of the open-sided hut in Western Samoa. Behind them the rain forest rises to the pinnacle of a long-dormant volcano. Beneath the thatched roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this...
...Alpha Kappa Sigma fraternities after an underage student from the University of Maine was discovered dead outside of their houses in April. Cameron Brett, whose blood alcohol level was nearly twice the legal driving limit, fell three stories to his death while trying to climb onto the roof of the fraternity during a party, reported an April 26 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Todd Cruikshank, an 18-year-old sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, becomes highly intoxicated at a party and falls to his death from the roof of his fraternity house. Cruikshank's blook alcohol level is found to be 0.18. The fraternity is later indicted for allowing beer to be given to minors, reported an Oct. 9 article in The Union Leader...
...first three flybys can be seen anywhere with open access to the sky, such as a roof deck terrace, the JFK Street Bridge or next to the River Houses along Memorial Drive. Mir will rise above the Harvard Business School and Soldiers' Field and then cross over the Charles River before disappearing behind the River Houses...
...investments go, that's not exactly blowing the roof off. But take risk into account and tack on the tax and leverage benefits of a mortgage, and you have an asset that in coming years just might (gulp!) beat the stock market. Should you sell all your stocks and hire a carpenter? Of course not. For convenience and superior long-term returns, stocks remain the way to go. But real estate rises about as fast, and while you can't easily sell your house to capture the gain, you do get to live in it. Here...