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...About 4:30 a.m. in East Innisfail, Karl Hocke and his family were woken by the wind battering their hillside timber-and-fibro home. They sat together in the lounge room, hoping the worst had passed, but by 5 a.m. the house had begun to vibrate with alarming regularity. When 18-year-old Nikita went to the toilet she found she couldn't sit down because the seat was bucking so badly. The glass doors on the veranda were bowing inward; Karl tried to calm his 13-year-old son Aden, while his wife Jenny put down towels to stop...
Students may have woken up last Monday morning to pending facebook.com requests from that cheerful face from last year’s freshman musical—their high school’s freshman musical, that is. Facebook.com removed the separation between high school and college facebook accounts Monday, allowing students in both groups to send each other friend requests and subsequently view each other’s profiles. The integration of the two accounts raised concerns about privacy from students who prefer to share their college lives with their college friends. The issue of high schoolers viewing their collegiate counterparts?...
...fourth straight league game, including the third in a row at home, to fall to 12-10 overall and 4-5 in the Ivies. “We played in a funk,” captain Matt Stehle said. “It was like we had all just woken up from a long sleep.” Just as in last week’s losses to Princeton and Penn, the Crimson struggled in the opening minutes, getting off to a sluggish start that had the team playing from well behind the entire night. In stark contrast to last...
...five, thanks in no small part to the Bears’ comparative hustle and tenacity. “We were very flat,” Harvard captain Matt Stehle said. “We just played in a funk. It was like we had all just woken up from a long sleep.” A LITTLE PICK ME UP Stehle gave Harvard a boost out of the intermission, scoring the Crimson’s first eight points after halftime. But after a three-pointer by freshman point guard Drew Housman, Stehle picked up a technical foul as he tossed...
...seeing the children wave as we go by," and then adds that "sometimes they do throw rocks." And so she remains vigilant. The roads are peppered with hidden land mines and bomb craters. After steering around one huge, blackened hole, Swenson says, "Boy, that one sure woulda woken me up." When they roll back to camp safely, the relief among the soldiers on patrol is palpable. They were lucky that dayno attacks, no IEDs. "I'm no hero. I don't want no Purple Heart," she says. "I just want to make it back without a scratch...