Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Landlords argue that the bill would rectify the current situation, in which tenants can go months without paying--and then skip town...
Landlords argue that the bill would rectify the current situation, in which tenants can go months without paying--and then skip town...
...answer. What matters about Radcliffe's new status is not, contrary to student gospel, the future of the Radcliffe Union of Students, what will happen to the grants and externships Radcliffe administers, or even who signs whose diploma. What matters is that Harvard is now the only parent in town. And the way women feel here will be solely Harvard's responsibility...
...give her curriculum an environmental focus, emphasizing Adirondack ecology and history "smack in our backyard." Walk into the school now, and an eerie silence echoes off the polished corridor floors. Classrooms are empty because many of the kids are off in the woods. The kindergarten class is at the town's little nature center down the road. Groups of students go out with Americorps volunteers three days a week to track animals, learn compass- and map-reading skills and study water usage and pollution. High schoolers pursue research projects: a study of how highway salt affects vegetation or a local...
Hayes, 54, didn't set out to be an environmentalist. He grew up in Camas, Wash., a small paper-mill town where the air stank from sulfur fumes. Like most other people there, he loved the outdoor life, but his concern over the damage the mills were doing to his beloved forest was tempered by the realization that the industry was also his dad's employer. Not until his undergraduate days at Stanford in the '60s did he become a rabble rouser, and then his target was not pollution but war: he helped lead more than 1,000 students...