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...School of Arts and Sciences, recalled in an interview yesterday. “She was just enjoying the nature and everything was so beautiful.”The afternoon hike turned unimaginably tragic. A log on which the couple was sitting broke loose, sending the pair tumbling down a steep hill. As they fell, the log rolled over them, killing Rossel.The sudden death of Rossel, 32, just two months after her wedding and a month before she was to receive her doctorate in anthropology, left colleagues and friends devastated. “Stine was the kind of beautiful that radiated...
...there who broke 80 when 10 people in the field were up there [with a score less than 80].” Difficult hole locations, best embodied by the pin placement on the green of the par-five sixth hole, contributed to higher scores. The hole, positioned on a steep down slope on the green, prevented anyone putting from above the hole to stop the ball close to the cup. “Some of these hole positions were borderline unfair,” Shuman said. “Anyone above the hole was looking at a six-foot comebacker...
...emissions, companies that produce lots of carbon dioxide could be forced to purchase costly carbon offsets to meet the new regulations. These are material financial risks, the same as high oil prices or a falling currency, yet many U.S. corporations are entirely unprepared for them and could pay a steep price among both consumers and stockholders. "Climate risk is going to hit very broadly, and investors want to see what companies are doing about it," says Gorte...
...migration rarely leaves more than a few thousand dead; but this year, an estimated 10,000, or about 1% of the wildebeest population, were wiped out. Conservationists say the wildebeest simply chose the wrong point to cross the river, one where the bank on the other side was too steep to climb. As those in the front drowned, they trapped those behind them...
...everyone should necessarily agree with the decision itself. As The Crimson argued in a staff editorial opposing the proposed change on April 26, 2006, maybe cutting fall sophomore tutorials is too steep a price to pay for increased choice. But regardless of one’s personal feelings on the merits of the delayed choice, is it preposterous to adopt a system pushing back concentration choices and then neglect to enforce it. If the Faculty wishes to preserve courses like Social Studies 10 in their current state, then it should revert to its previous policies; if it believes that delayed...