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...school senior gets wait-listed and it becomes an even more lengthy process that does often not resolve itself until the very last minute. For the most part, however, right about now kids feel either incredibly validated and complete, or utterly worthless and pathetic. And all because of a thin or fat envelope bearing the results of an enigmatic and mysterious collection of suits and dresses' value judgement on high schoolers using a folder generally thinner than Ally McBeal's waistline as their only criteria...
Oddly enough, its counterpart--known affectionately as "Fall back"-- doesn't seem so off-kilter. Why second-guess the power of the government to create an hour out of thin air with the flick of a switch? That's an extra sixty minutes of sleep, partying and flexing those procrastination muscles on a paper which is still due at noon--although suddenly it's only one o'clock in the morning...
...other train ride from Cuzco departs from Wanchac station and is memorable more for the railway experience itself. The diesel train sways as it chugs bravely for more than 10 hours through the thin air of the altiplano that links Cuzco with Puno near the Bolivian border. You can see herds of huddled alpacas and women in layers of skirts and bright shawls as the train ambles by. Halfway along the 239-mile Cuzco-to-Puno trip, it crosses the highest point of any standard-gauge passenger train service in the world at La Raya, 14,172 ft. above...
...been linked to a number of pregnancies in previously infertile women. A little pill appears to give everyone what they want: Men get their mojo back, while some infertile women may get the pregnancies they desire. In Las Vegas, four patients whose uterine linings were considered too thin to support a fertilized egg were given Viagra in hopes of increasing blood flow to the problem areas - in the same way the drug delivers a surge of blood to a man's penis. The dosage worked for three of the women, whose linings thickened enough to accommodate an implanted embryo...
...line between being too busy to care about one's thesis and becoming obsessed with it is a thin one (maybe even invisible to some of us) which is usually crossed by mid-February. One moment, we're (fairly) normal people who are happy to discuss current events at dinner; the next we're catatonic slugs who perk up only at the mention of a possible bibliographic citation for our topic. You can diagnose an obsessed thesis writer using the following check-list of symptoms: the room is piled high with over-due library books...