Word: thanks
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...expedition to Borneo 15 years ago with his professor from graduate school, Ashton was bitten by a venomous snake on Mt. Kinabalu, the tallest mountain on the island. Two other members of the expedition carried him down the mountain and into a nearby village. “I thank them for my life,” Ashton said. Ashton is currently working on a book chronicling his work with tropical forests in Asia, and expects to continue his research in not only ecology but its interaction with global warming as well. —Staff writer Marie C. Kodama...
...clogged on that side, so I took it to the right side. I knew there wasn’t that much time left, so it was either try and shoot a fadeaway shot over a big guy, or try and get it down low to Evan, and thank God it went through [the defender’s] legs and he was able to score.” “I don’t know how he got the ball through, but he threw it and I just saw the ball and put it up as fast...
...would be a lot bigger and more incomprehensible than anything any religion has to offer and more than even science can explain. God is beyond religion, beyond laws and beyond science. As a practicing Catholic with some faith and a strong belief in logical reason, I thank you, Richard, for your rational and scientific description of God. Ben Santillan Makati City, the Philippines...
...public drinking fountains where locals fill up old Coke bottles with hot mineral water, when a lady pointed out that the bottle of wine I was carrying had broken through its plastic bag. I tucked the bottle back in as best I could and said thank you--good deed done, as far as I was concerned--but the woman kept cheerily talking in Bulgarian as she emptied one of her own shopping bags and insisted I take it to replace my ripped...
...wall is dividing. Palestinians have no rights in their own territory,” she said, referring the security barrier constructed on the Israeli border with the West Bank. Other vocal Carter supporters included a man wearing a yarmulke who carried a large sign that read “Thank you, Jimmy Carter.” With most students finished with exams and heading out for intersession, there were relatively few student demonstrators at the event. Despite listserv e-mails from Harvard Students for Israel President Dana Stern ’09 urging the club’s members...