Word: seaboard
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...truly formidable academic hoax stalks the eastern seaboard. Its name sours on the lips of every true devotee of veritas. (We need no artificial lux for intellectual trail-blazing under Cambridge’s bright daytime skies; and unlike Yalies, we actually have lives once the sun goes down, and visits to the local police station don’t count.) But as pathetic as Eli is, he is an insidious pest. The task of eliminating the malformed menace from New Haven is a Herculean one, far beyond the reach of any one class or team. Harvard?...
...increasingly concerned that dependence on Middle Eastern oil could jeopardize national security. As a result, Russia’s five largest oil companies have been looking into constructing a pipeline from Western Siberia to Murmansk on the Arctic Ocean. From there, a supertanker could transport oil to the eastern seaboard of the United States, helping to alleviate its dependence on OPEC...
...Number of rubber bath toys thought to be streaming toward the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They fell off a container ship in the Pacific...
...myself, rejecting the eastern seaboard internship circuit for one summer isn’t terribly revolutionary in the grand scheme of things, and it’s true that the concept of “real world experience” smacks of a little condescension. But leaving Cambridge for a job wandering around in drug-vending coffeeshops and smartshops and wading through brothels and sex shows—it beat my summers chained to the computer. To drink absinthe, behave brazenly and rudely to strangers in bars; to play mindgames with thieving landlords; to hop trains and planes solo...
...sadness and a yearning for hope. Maybe because of the latter, The Rising's music can be oddly cheery--Empty Sky and Lonesome Day are awfully toe tapping for songs of mourning--as Springsteen keeps circling back to one central image: the clear blue sky over the Eastern seaboard on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The Rising is poignant, even wrenching ("Without you I'm ... an ice-cream truck on a deserted street"). But if it has any political doctrine, it is on-one-hand-on-the-other-handism. Several tracks look at the East-West culture clash...