Word: ruggedness
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Dawn in Ojai, Calif. As the sun rises over rugged peaks, more than 80 young men and women are busy shoveling horse droppings at the elite Thacher School, a 425-acre sprawl of corrals and classrooms that combines New England-style prep-school life with the ethos of Western ranching...
The game was an important tuneup for the Crimson, which now heads south for the rugged part of its schedule with games against two undefeated teams, third-ranked Loyola and fourth-ranked Maryland. This is certainly no spring break.
Hard-core climbing buffs may soon be able to approximate such death-defying thrills indoors. In Chicago, a new cliff will soar a breathtaking eight stories from base to summit, and the French are experimenting with ever more realistic simulations of the rugged outdoors, complete with frozen indoor waterfalls.
This new crusade began with the seizure of the east bank of the Amur valley as far south as Vladivostok, which a now enfeebled China ceded in 1860. On the enormous Pacific island of Sakhalin, the Russians first established a joint "condominium" with the Japanese in 1855, then took over...
Little did he suspect just how long -- or rugged -- that road would be. For most of his early life, there had been ample good luck. His father, a tailor, struck it rich in 1944 by winning the national lottery. That, and a partial scholarship, enabled Duarte to attend the University...