Word: strata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Morison felt that nothing could change the social strata so strongly felt at Harvard...
...postcard as a possible next stop. With cruelly bad luck they might find the place. The author describes an outpost of paranoia and fear festering with something more virulent than countrymen's traditional loathing for outsiders and government bureaucrats. Rumored large discoveries of opals in the surrounding geologic strata don't really explain matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail to the outside is stamped, sorted and bagged, but not sent out. A schoolteacher who arrives from Brisbane...
...youth have taught her well--she never feels cold or looks bulky. The trick is to layer like a farm girl. When looking for the ultimate winter coat, try to resist the allure of poofy Michelin Man jackets and other high-tech numbers. Instead, bust out with several strata of cozy natural fibers...
...they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the veins of its waters...
...Just the fact that I have that name attached--Harvard '97--it's like adding another last name to your name," she says. "From where I come from, your last name means everything, your economic strata. Harvard is a last name. It puts you in the highest caste. You can't erase...