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...Mainers, after all. "We're private people," one of them told me, "and we protect the privacy of others. And we're always rather surprised when someone else doesn't." That protectiveness holds even today, 14 years after White's death. In the local library one morning, I struck up a conversation with a man who used to run the general store...
...reported to the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) he was nearly struck by a male driver while he was crossing the street in the crosswalk. When approached, the driver grabbed the pedestrian's arm and said, "I'm a police officer...You're under arrest!" The pedestrian demanded a badge from the suspect, but he left the scene without comment...
...Berkeley, and she doesn't really meet people. I'm interacting with professors and graduate students, and I've met the chancellor. You can tell the faculty is really reaching out to students." Melissa Marchand says she chose Irvine over UCLA in part because 34,000-student UCLA struck her as big and impersonal. "At UCLA, a biology class could be 500 people, while here 200 people is huge," she says. "My major is bio, and I didn't want not to be able to go up to a professor with a question...
...hands. Last month, a passing wannabe miner got into another man's mine and rifled a lode of opals that the owner had opened up but left unextracted. (He had taken off to the pub for a beer, committing the fatal error of letting on that he'd struck, and this was overheard by the thief.) His friends identified the thief from his boot prints, said nothing, came for him the next night, broke both his arms and threw him alive down one of the thousands of abandoned mineshafts that speckle the landscape. He was never found, and probably never...
...modern world, of course, a man's wallet and social skills probably mean more to a woman than the size of his chin. But the study does yield a piece of practical advice for all those nice guys who struck out last weekend: if at first you don't succeed, try, try again--for at least a month...