Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural flights of human imagination," wrote Sam Johnson, "is not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope." Said Star Trek's point-eared theoretician, Mr. Spock: "You may find that having is not so pleasurable as wanting...
...freshman picnic at Radcliffe Yard. The brochure says this event is "informal." Actually, you have to go out and buy a tux or evening gown to dine on rubbery chicken. Actually, you don't. You may as well trek up Garden St. to absorb the atmosphere, lie on the grass, maybe meet a few new people. Avoid the food, though...
...Open house at the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. A great resource, OCS-OCL is well worth the trek down Dunster St. Here you might consider options that never occurred to you, like foreign study, leaves of absence, and volunteer work experience. While it may be a bit early to contemplate these things seriously, if you get introduced to OCS-OCL early on you can keep them in the back of your mind...
...sandy beaches on the Red Sea coast to the rolling hills of Zimbabwe, scenes of hunger and despair have become a terrible norm across a vast body of land encompassing parts of twelve countries and exceeding in size all of Western Europe. In northwestern Kenya, forlorn Turkana tribesmen trek for miles through the bush to Catholic missions in Kakuma and Lodwar, where emergency food is distributed. In the strife-torn Karamoja province of northeastern Uganda, relief workers wake every morning to find the corpses of malnourished children deposited on their doorsteps. In the Horn of Africa, more than 1.7 million...
When Soviet skiers completed a 78-day, 1,056-mile trek to the North Pole, for example, he was flown there to interview them...