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...knows many people who make the same choice but find it restricts their weekend plans. Rather than conforming or giving up on the party scene, Norberg has come up with an alternative: root beer kegs. He threw several successful root beer keg parties in college, complete with root beer-uit and keg stands.LEARNING TO LOVE WHERE YOU’RE ATJust a few years after leading lives of relative isolation, college culture has tested and torqued the personalities of these homeschoolers in different ways, leaving each of them with a distinct identity. Lauzon agrees. “There?...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...lovers aren't taking this kick in the rear without a yelp. "I don't think the model is threatened," says Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool Website, where an estimated 200,000 "fools" play some version of the Dow dogs. Stan Craig, head of UIT sales at Merrill Lynch (which controls $10 billion in Dow-dog assets), notes that a buy-and-hold investor in the first "Select 10" UIT in 1991 would be up 184% by now, vs. 171% for the Dow. But clearly the advantages first noted by O'Higgins have eroded. Morningstar Inc. studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DOW'S DOGS WON'T HUNT | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Gistermiddag zou te Middelburg een 49-jarige slagersknecht in de centrale slachtplaats een koe slachten. Op het oogenblik, dat hij het schot wilde afvuren, stootte de koe hem met den kop het pistool uit de handen. Door den val ging het schot af en trof den man in den bulk. Deze was dadelijk dood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/4/1930 | See Source »

...happen to have been born in Holland, as were my forebears for some 300 years and "Kijkuit" means "Lookout" if you use it as a noun. The sharp warning: "Look out!" in Dutch would be: "Kijk uit!" At Dutch railroad crossings we see the signs "Uitkujken!" "Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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