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...grass and are given spring water and supplements of mineral blocks and hay. A small roast purchased from Healey's was slightly dry, even though it was cooked at 300 degrees F, as suggested; stew meat needed much more seasoning than conventional beef would have. Chenango beefalo was a shade less satisfactory in all categories. Beefalo prices match those of prime beef...
...garnished and laid out cafeteria-style in a cheerful yellow-and-spring-green dining room. That bright lime green is the Keydril trademark. The company rigs are painted in that color to give them a clean look from shore and thus not offend environmentalists. Lime green is also the shade for uniforms that all personnel must wear after coming off the drilling floor. No one in work clothes is permitted in the living quarters; that is not a standard drilling-rig custom but rather a Keydril requirement --one that, like having women aboard, is considered a civilizing and softening touch...
...they dropped to 76 percent. When I graduated from high school, they plummeted to 66 percent. It's a little disconcerting to find out that now, as I enter the third decade of my life, a total stranger has assessed my marriageability at a miserable 60 percent, just a shade better that a fenced 50-50. Now I know what the Princess of Wales felt like when London bookies were laying odds on the sex of the as yet unborn Prince William of Wales: 3 to 1 for a girl...
...national media makes the same sort of fuss over dissension among people of color--as if we're supposed to be a monolith, think alike, see the world in the same way simply because we are a shade darker than others--or for some other reason we can't, or don't want to, explain...
...gave the coaching staff a scare when she went down with 25:39 left in regulation. Groome lay on the carpet a minute--being attended by trainer Meg O'Keefe--before hopping to her feet to remain in the game. Her injury was turf-related... Groome wore heavy sun-shade under her eyes despite the fact that most of Saturday's game was played under cloud-cover... Cornell had 10 penalty corners, Harvard had five...Katsias made seven saves... Harvard took 24 shots...