Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...orange, rose, green, lavender. Plants with Einstein's hair, plants with Don King's and Phyllis Diller's--all kept graceful by the water. The garden is vertical as well as horizontal. On its floor sea stars crawl on their bellies like fat recruits in basic training. Above them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce and becomes its own sibling. On the surface the kelp flattens into canopies, 3 ft. thick, that weaken the waves...
...place where the history of life actually can be found, not in fossils but in living creatures that represent life as it has been, perhaps, from the beginning of time." The privilege of her vocation is "like having a chance to dive into your own circulatory system and swim around and see how it all fits together...
...Swim Team - Captain 1997-1998; Harvard Athletic Department - Volunteer Intern; Harvard's Research Assistant to the Ivy League for Book Celebrating 25 years of Women's Ivy League Championships; Friends of Harvard Men's Swimming- Co-Chair; Harvard Swim School-Volunteer Swim Instructor...
...Rudenstine share ceremonial duties at the beginning and end of your undergraduate career--shaking your hand at the first-year barbecue and showing up for Commencement. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is the head of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University "tub" in which undergraduates swim. He and Dean Lewis make most final decisions for the issues that affect you directly...
...ease the transition to the new, detracked environment, principal Antonio Gaitan organized after-school tutoring and Saturday enrichment classes for 700 former standard-track kids. "It's vital to build in curriculum support," Gaitan explains. "You don't just throw kids into the deep water." Have they learned to swim? The early results, at least, are promising. Doomsayers predicted that at least half the student body would flunk out in the new system, but by the end of last year 80% had a GPA of 2.0 or better; 47.5% had a 3.0 or higher. The school's average combined...