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...this might only be an anecdote for the sports-starved who can't subsist on Nebraska-Colorado and Bruins-Blues for too long...
...Semidoctus Gloriosus--also known as the "Artfart" or "Pseudointellectual." For habitat, the artfart prefers the Advocate Building. WHRE, the Signet Society and Adams House, but the majority never get this far and are forced to subsist in dining halls and common rooms across campus. They are the only species that can refer to anything from rhyme scheme to melody as an "issue...
...Jonas Mutongi Kashama, whose well-kept, one-room home belies his desperate straits, the disintegration of Kinshasa means that for long periods his family must subsist on one meal every two days. Mutongi is actually one of the lucky ones, since, after six months of unemployment, he found work as an accountant. Even so, with the jobless rate at 80%, he must support out-of-work relatives on a tiny salary that is constantly eroded by an annual hyperinflation rate of more than 3,000%. "If things do not change, we will die," says Mutongi with quiet resignation...
Isolated from outsiders until the early 1900s, some 24,000 Yanomami still dwell in Brazil and Venezuela. They live in doughnut-shaped communal homes, have no written language, wear no clothes, use rudimentary tools and subsist by hunting, fishing and cultivating a variety of crops, including sweet potatoes and bananas...
Even worse for Trump's ego, the big spender will have to subsist on a % monthly allowance, which bankers will supervise. Instead of the staggering $583,000 that he spent on food, shelter and other living expenses in May, Trump will be required to limit himself to a merely stupendous $450,000 a month for the rest of 1990. His allowance will shrink to $375,000 in 1991 and a stingy...