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While Jarrell was the most disastrously affected, tornadoes struck a wide area from Waco to hill country south of Austin. Elsewhere, however, the destruction in the path of the storm, which led to three other deaths, seemed almost whimsical. The roof was ripped off a supermarket in Cedar Park, but when shoppers who had taken refuge in the freezer section emerged, they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department...
...patients. Independent Sector, a Washington-based research group, found that 38% of 18-to-24-year-olds volunteered within the past year, along with more than half the 25-to-33-year-olds. Without a Vietnam War, the new generation is less polarized. "Young people today are not as struck by life's fragility," says John Gardner, head of the National Resource Center for the Freshman Year Experience at the University of South Carolina. "They're not thinking about thermonuclear Armageddon...
Indeed, Kishlansky contends that "grade inflation has struck everyone equally...
...what struck Kolter most, as with others with whom Gupta works, is the incredible enthusiasm and genuine curiosity with which she approaches her work...
What I have come to realize is that while none of us can dispute that Harvard is big, the joy of being an undergraduate is discovering that Harvard is big in all the right ways. The physical structure itself is breathtaking. I am daily awe-struck by the beauty of a sunny spring day in Radcliffe Yard, the majesty of the Eliot tower presiding over the Charles and the expanse of Cambridge viewed from the wide windows of the Mather high rise. The possibilities for learning are equally awesome, with a course for every interest and with endless seminars, colloquia...