Word: skies
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...balls on the line," he says proudly. The brash owner is even starting a horse hedge fund, allowing private investors to buy into his portfolio of Thoroughbreds and sell out at a handsome profit if they succeed. Or lose it all. "My confidence is sky-high right now," he says...
...permission of the military junta," the underground group, based in Rangoon, pleaded in a public statement. "Just come now." When I floated the idea of unilateral intervention with a democracy activist in Rangoon, he brightened up. "People would be so happy if they got foreign food from the sky," he said. Then, he whispered to me that Than Shwe's compound in Naypyidaw is now visible on Google Earth, in case I wanted to pass on a helpful tip to the U.S. Pacific Command. But as tempting as it might sound to a Burmese opposition figure to airdrop high-energy...
...With enrollment numbers sky high, it seems Harvard’s economists need not worry whether Gen Ed classes will provide a gateway to their department. But for the school’s historians, finding a place for their classes is another matter...
...help UFO enthusiasts answer some of their out-of-this-world questions. But Pope, for one, isn't hopeful. "I just think most people will get so tired of going through hundreds of pages from people out walking their dogs at night who see a white light in the sky," he says. And even if a reader should stumble across a sign of something that seems alien, the reams of paperwork aren't likely to explain it. "There is no smoking gun in these files," Pope says. "There's no spaceship in an airplane hangar." Still, he's not ready...
...skin, the body, and the head of a goat draped over a tree branch,” Means said. “On the gate facing Memorial Drive there was a head impaled, literally impaled. A post was stuck up its neck and it was facing the sky.” The animal remains had come from preparations for Dunster House’s annual spring Goat Roast. “I was just kind of sad someone would do that to the body of an animal,” Means said. Dunster House purchased two slaughtered goats...