Word: semis
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...think the semi discouraged them because we only got a seat in front of them and they didn’t move the whole race,” Howard said. “I think they were worried that if they ever gave anything up, they wouldn’t be able to get it back...
FOUND. BEAT GENERATION, a long-forgotten play by American counterculture icon Jack Kerouac; by his agent; while going through old files in a New Jersey warehouse. Kerouac, whose semi-autobiographical stories featured his enlightenment-seeking, hard-drinking literary buddies Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, wrote the three-act play in 1957, the same year his epic novel On the Road was printed, but it was never performed or published. Best Life magazine, which will carry an excerpt from Beat Generation in its July issue, describes it as "a day in the drink- and drug-hazed life of [Kerouac...
Meanwhile, as the WikiWikiWeb was chugging along happily in semi-obscurity, Wales was looking for a way to combine his life's two major hobbies. As a home-schooled child growing up in Huntsville, Ala., he loved to spend his free hours getting lost in Britannica or the World Book. Then there was the Internet, which Wales stumbled across in college as early as 1989. "I met all these great people online," he says, "and we were all discussing things on mailing lists no one ever looks at. I thought, Why not use the smarts of my friends and build...
...think the semi discouraged them because we only got a seat in front of them and they didn’t move the whole race,” Howard said. “I think they were worried that if they ever gave anything up, they wouldn’t be able to get it back...
...semi was basically Eastern Sprints and Pac-10s, part two,” sophomore varsity two-seat Andrew Boston said. “We had no idea how fast Cal and Washington were...