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...Take any book off the shelf in the library. Read it. Now go to the foreign periodical section of Widener and read from one. Out loud...
...current pre-veterinary resources availableat OCS include "veterinary school catalogues,books on vet school admissions requirements andguidebooks on applying to veterinary school,"according to Michelson. They make up only severalbooks that sit atop part of a shelf in the readingroom...
Struggling for a book on the top shelf in the Pusey stacks, we found that we could barely reach the third shelf down. A view of the titles of the books on the top shelf was a mere pipe dream. Even if we were six feet tall, reaching the shelf would have been a stretch. And there wasn't a single one of those little rolly-stairs things in sight. Dragging a chair from a nearby carrel, we found that, perched precariously astride the arms of the chair, we could just make the grab...
Although general interest may wane when thesubject matter fades from the public view, someinstructors say its short shelf-life is preciselythe reason why it is important to study popularculture...
...undulations in sea level produced as the ripples pass by. That's how NASA oceanographer Anthony Busalacchi could see early last spring that swarms of undersea waves had started to head out across the Pacific toward the coast of Peru; he followed them as they slammed into the continental shelf, then split, heading sharply south toward Chile and north toward Alaska...