Word: smacked
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...adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...
That might smack of excessive exuberance were it not for the gains he has made in the brief interval since he founded Airness, named after Him. Kon started in 1999, selling sweatshirts sporting the Airness name and slinking-panther logo around the northern Paris housing projects where he lived. He has since developed a clothing and sports line that has grown at least 100% annually...
...display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...
Would you be interested in an ecologically sound pastime that's mostly free of charge, adventurous and helps you lose kilos in the process? Then get your boots on. Hiking may smack of church camps or high school geography clubs, but vistas like that of Canada's Kootenay Lake Forest, pictured, can be just the thing for restoring the jaded traveler's sense of wonder. Here are four other sensational hiking destinations...
...This is not an on-campus, off-campus issue. Furthermore, plagiarism is not a seepage problem. The author did far more than overstep her bounds. Harvard is bound up with Viswanathan and has been since before the plagiarism story came out. Not taking disciplinary action would smack far more of “elitism,” Harvard “ivory tower”(ism), and even arrogance than the authors seem to understand. The university is part of the off-campus world and needs to act like it. WALTER H. HOWERTON JR. Austin, Texas...