Word: virginia
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...women's team was also in action in its first tournament of the season at Chapel Hill, N.C. in the UNC Invitational. Players were from most of the top 20 schools, including Wake Forest, William and Mary, Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth. Freshman Nivedita Jerath, playing in her first intercollegiate tournament, finished second in the "B" flight, losing the final to Andrea Cowlter of William and Mary...
...finalists are Abate, Christopher A. Amar, Hector C. Bove, Samuel C. Cohen, Adam D. Colvin, Fazili, Hunte, Virginia Grace James, Jones, Justin M. Krebs, P. Terrence McGovern, McNeil, Michels, Murphy, Robby S. Schwartz, and Shen...
...sniffles? You may want to put down that Kleenex. A study released Friday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...
...course of his slim book--For Common Things runs to 207 pages--Purdy spends altogether too much time on what he openly admits are his pet issues: the miasma of confusion that is eastern European public life after 1989, and the ecological disaster of strip-mining in West Virginia. And Purdy admits, too, that his notions of the direction in which public life should move are highly derivative--although his chapter on the pervasive effects of irony and its corrosion of popular culture is original, very sophisticated, and compelling. But if you can cut through the occasional tediousness, what...
...resentfulness born of this attitude, as Hodge castigates Purdy more for who he is than for what he believes: "Apparently because we're all too ironic or falsely spiritual to believe in anything as simple and real as the value of living on a hillside farm in West Virginia, we lack a politics that functions as a repository of our hopes and dreams." Even to a reader less self-consciously worldly and less corrosively bitter than Hodge, Purdy's tone and substance--the fact that this book is about Jedediah Purdy, and that any power in the book springs from...