Word: towns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local priest is not the only person with whom the officers are friendly. Even in a city of over 100,000 residents, the officers give off a small-town type of familiarity and confidence. The only difference is that the crime here is not all small-town...
...same time pure, like the air in a vault that has gone undisturbed for centuries." Stranded just offshore an Irish Catholic settlement in Newfoundland, the fishermen imagine the berg as a schooner, a basilica, an image of the Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea. As the rest or the town awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen of a new beau. The new parish priest sees it as the Isle of Skellig Michael, drifted from his native Ireland to remind...
After 15 years as a chef in Vail, Colo., James Gibson has a memory of every bump and turn on the resort town's famous slopes. Now he offers the next best thing to even first-time visitors. For as little as $15 a day, Gibson's Maptrek company rents skiers and trail bikers fanny packs equipped with global-positioning satellite devices that record their every move. At day's end they get a map showing their precise path and approximate speed. In the fall, Gibson will add head-mounted videocams, so visitors can replay their adventures...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...
...after spending four consecutive nights on the town, these two hungover Student Life columnists found every formal remains a different scene, with each House claiming they've got the best party around. Before we begin, we'll let you in on one secret--no House came out clearly...