Word: train
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quickest and easiest way is, as you would expect, to follow the crowd. Most of Machu Picchu's 2,500 daily visitors arrive by a four-hour train ride from Cuzco that ends at the small town of Aguas Calientes. From there, a 20-minute bus journey transports them up to the famous ruins. The hard way, on the other hand, involves joining a guided trek of the Inca Trail. From a starting point that lies 88 km by train from Cuzco, you plunge into the jungle, camp for three nights along the way and reach altitudes...
...begin by taking the 6:15 a.m. train from Cuzco station, lumbering past the Mount Veronica glacier, small farming communities and colorfully attired Peruvian women selling their wares at the trackside. The disembarkation point comes 104 km down the line. There is no station there, merely an arrow indicating the way to the trailhead across the Urubamba River. Entrepreneurial locals sell $3 walking sticks carved from tree branches-and you'll need them, because you're in for a roughly six-hour rainforest trek...
...When you decided that you were going to take time off from Harvard to train for the 2008 Olympics, how did your teammates react...
...address—TF@hcs.harvard.edu—to which undergraduates will send both compliments and complaints about their TFs. On the receiving end, a group of undergraduates will move to address student comments. To ensure responsible action, we have partnered with the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning to train these undergraduates in reading evaluations and encouraging the betterment of both teaching and learning in Harvard classrooms. Most often, student intermediaries will present TFs and, when necessary, course heads with comments coming through the hotline, empowering students, TFs, and faculty to invoke change in real time...
...great blessing, just thinking what an honor it is to be able to represent my country, and play with some of the players that are some of the best in the world.”The team assembles in Grand Forks, Mich. for a pre-World Championships training camp on March 21, wrapping up on April 1 with the second of two scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World...