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Lecturer on Earth and Planetary Sciences Mark Van Baalen, who gave short lectures during the trip, said that a major aspect of the Hawaii trip “was helping students to appreciate the physical scale of things in nature...
...think we trust the students, so we’re not worried about one or two who might try to gain from the system,” said Van Baalen. “Many students who had never really considered concentrating or a career in earth sciences are really turned on to the experience by field trips. These can be life-changing experiences...
...master documentarian as well as a prime picturemaker, Scorsese uses interviews with dozens of important figures from the New York City folk, poetry and blues scene--Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Dave Van Ronk, Allen Ginsberg, Al Kooper--to recreate the impact when Bobby Zimmerman of Hibbing, Minn., hit town in January 1961 on a pilgrimage to visit the ailing Guthrie. Dylan went right to work, sponging up all manner of folk influences, spending days in the library reading U.S. history, ingesting every book of poetry he found in the apartments of friends who let him sleep over...
...found a place as a money trader and made a pile as he jumped from job to job and city to city. He returned to New Zealand to take a shot at winning the seat of Helensville, west of Auckland, in 2002. Behind the wheel of a musty camper van emblazoned with his smiling face, the personable Key is talking about the quirks of his rural electorate by the sea, with its mix of farmers, retirees, Auckland workers and alternative lifestylers - and about the main contest. "We have to create a bigger economy, not just change the way we slice...
...parks the van near Muriwai Beach at 2 p.m. on a Monday; a letter-box drop in the area has urged voters to come and meet him. Key is wearing dark suit pants and a salmon-colored shirt (no tie), suggesting work and energy; the people here, in shorts and light dresses, look like they're on holiday. Several locals stop by with donations or to pick up on a previous conversation, as the smell of frying vegetable oil from a snack bar wafts by. A young mother, carrying a child, identifies as a Labour voter but she wants...