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...only ones enjoying a moment of levity amid the cataclysmic weather. "It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries uncle," Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina wrote on Twitter. But with the snow still falling, locals took advantage of the time off to tromp through the picturesque drifts piling up on mostly vacant streets. In the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, where a Facebook-fueled flash mob engaged in a massive snowball fight on Saturday, residents skied through deserted intersections, shoveled off stoops and walked their dogs - trying, perhaps, to maintain a hint of normalcy...
...might think raw milk would be a tough sell after the Taco Bell and bagged-spinach E. coli scares. After all, even the healthiest grass-fed cows tromp around in mud and fecal matter and carry all manner of bacteria with them into the milking parlor. Between 1990 and 2004, U.S. health authorities traced 168 disease outbreaks to dairy products; nearly a third were linked to unpasteurized items, according to the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. But in fact, demand for raw milk seems to be rising faster than cream in an unhomogenized gallon jug. Hebron...
...litigation or bad publicity—with one notable exception. I would rejoice if the police started distributing citations for public lewdness on Primal Scream night. The few times that I have had the misfortune of witnessing Harvard students expose their nether regions to the frigid elements and unabashedly tromp around the Yard like a herd of gazelles, I suffered from nightmares for months...
...nine minutes into the action, with midfielder Amy Stopford hitting pay-dirt on a rocket from the top of the circle off a penalty corner. Five and a half minutes later, Duke again capitalized on the penalty corner, as forward Katie Grant tipped a straight shot from midfielder Julie Tromp into the cage. Grant got her second score of the game just a minute and a half before intermission, swatting a lofted shot from forward Cara-Lynn Lopresti into the net from the right post. Harvard could not get any momentum going and trailed 3-0 at the half, already...
...Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through her living room, she simply retreats to the back room and to her Bible. "I have survived this terrible thing because of my faith," she says. "I hope we can help others in China fill their spiritual void with the Saviour...