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...samplings (upper air readings, seismographic recordings, etc.) indicate that the Russians made this discovery seven months before...
...week" on the film's official web site, the slithery VenomousReptiles.org offers a dose of reptile reality -helping any Snakes on a Plane fan to appreciate just what Jackson and the other passengers are up against at 30,000 feet. Note the Snakes on a Plane event in the upper right corner of the page...
...been at Harvard for 13 years and is the father of three young children, says he is surprised by Harvard’s policy. When he came to Harvard and asked why the school does not offer tuition discounts, he says he was told by someone in the upper administration at Harvard at the time that “they didn’t want to create a situation where Harvard faculty thought they should be entitled or get special consideration getting into Harvard.”According to Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis...
...fires off rounds from an imaginary machine gun, "Egyptians will attack them and kill all the Ethiopians." Such threats, as well as grinding poverty and civil wars in Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan - whose capital is built where the Blue Nile meets the White - have stifled development along the upper river for decades. Dam and irrigation projects have been blocked. That, say regional leaders, has kept millions of people poor. "While Egypt is taking the Nile water to transform the Sahara into something green, we in Ethiopia - which is the source of 85% of that water - are denied the possibility...
...British aristocracy invented amateurism in the nineteenth century. When the working classes began to have enough leisure time to take up sports, the upper classes drafted the amateurism rules to segregate themselves. The original British rules of 1868 had the now-familiar prohibitions against competing for pay or prize money. But just in case some member of the lower classes might become athletically expert while avoiding such rewards, the rules also bluntly excluded any “mechanic, artisan or labourer.” Harvard’s President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, helped import the amateurism rules...