Word: trek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star Trek: Insurrection...
While some students were complaining about the arduous trek home to New York or the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike, others did not have to go very far for an enjoyable Thanksgiving dinner...
Following The Birthday Boys, a story about Robert Falcon Scott's deadly trek to the South Pole, and Every Man for Himself, about the sinking of the Titanic, Master Georgie completes an ambitious trilogy of novels that dissect great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere...
...lugging, book-toting students will once again be relieved of the pre-holiday trek to Logan Airport, thanks to the Undergraduate Council...
DIED. LORD HUNT, 88, old-school British soldier and explorer, and the brains behind the first trek to the summit of Mount Everest; in Henley, England. Then known as Colonel John Hunt, he engineered the historic ascent by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. Hunt's oxygen bottle froze on the way up, and he never reached the peak...