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Sixteen minutes later, Harvard's corner struck again. This time, Clark aired a lift shot instead of hitting it hard and low, and the only way Fortier could block it was by raising her stick over her head...
...historic gold-rush country of Northern California, Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage...
...farthest wins. Following that canon has led many daring pilots over the years to risk their lives, and sometimes to lose them. Tragedy, when it occurs, usually boils down to collision with one of three things: bad weather, bad judgment or bad luck. In 1923 five balloonists were struck by lightning and killed in Europe. But during the 89-year history of this race, no balloon had ever fallen victim to deliberate human aggression...
...people who work with him can say it just as nicely. "Michael is interested in issues," observes Sonny Mehta, editor in chief at Knopf, "whether they grow out of science, out of society, out of what is happening to us. When Michael delivers a manuscript, we are all struck by how much we are made to think, and how much information there is, and how well researched it is. I'm always learning something every time I work with Michael." Notes Lynn Nesbit, his longtime literary agent: "You can never predict with Michael, because his range of interests...
First the good news: in laying out the House regulations to his "Sisters and Brothers of the Winthrop Nation," Senior Tutor Gregory Mobley struck a blow against age discrimination, setting the House drinking age to a modest...