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  1. Truth, especially the mountain towns. A good example is a small town called Falls City that tourists pass through to get to the Valley of the Giants old growth forest reserve. It's a bad road, so you slowly pass by a lot of dilapidated old houses. Seems like the curtains open an inch or two at each one, and you can feel the eyes on you.
  2. One campus campus tour at MIT was unlike any other. They took us the entire length of campus in the tunnel system that students would commonly use at night. Cambridge isn't the safest place for an evening stroll. A student was stabbed to death right outside my dorm during my first semester.
  3. I bet it was the same guy who was still there in '88. I rode the bus with him a few times.
  4. There was a full time, lifetime student @ UT when I was there. He resembled that. I don't remember how many degrees he had earned. Looks like an undergrad living in Jester with meal plan today can expect to pay about $30k total for fall & spring. My bills came to about $3k for the same. First year scholarships like National Merit & TX Valedictorian covered everything. Then I made $1k/month off my T/A job for second and third year, so bills were never an issue. It was a helluva bargain.
  5. IIRC it was $18/semester hour in the late 80s, plus assorted fees. So ballpark, yeah.
  6. Back then it was possible to max out even higher. I took every AP exam I could (paid for by my school district) plus juco TX gov & history. I started out with 60 hours & graduated 6 semesters later with 150 hours. The biggest advantages were the ability to get into every class I wanted (yay TEX) and never needing to take more than 15 hours a semester.
  7. The issue isn't as simple as the new directive wants to make it seem. For context, I live on the border of commercial tree farms in the coast mountains (almost all Weyerhauser after they bought Willamette Industries in a hostile takeover) and national forest. I've been here since the late 90s, so I've witnessed the changes. I've had many friends who started working in the woods the week after high school graduation. The local logging industry is not like it used to be for a few basic economic reasons. First, the infrastructure is gone. There used to be mills all over the place. Fed conservation efforts like spotted owl protection led almost all local mills to shut down. I could have reached a mill in either direction from my house in five minutes. Now the nearest is an hour away in the Willamette Valley. The first big consequence of that change is that transport costs have increased dramatically. There are more efficient ways to transport finished product long distances than logs. Coupled with much higher diesel prices, it simply costs a lot more to log here now. Throw in a new housing bubble burst 15 years ago, and it's even worse. Much like re-shoring industrial manufacturing, the stated goal of the new tariffs, the solution would not be achieved in the short term, and big business is loathe to invest without long term guarantees, which aren't available when regulations are subject to change at the whim of the executive branch. No new mill would be open here before the the next president takes over. Second, the population is less than half what it was in the early 90s. There used to be post offices and small stores within easy reach. Now there's only one option to grab a beer within a half hour, and the postal service tried to shut down our weekday only, 4 hour per day post office. Round trip to the grocery store is three hours. The workforce left when the employers did. Those who remain are mostly unemployable tweekers. It's a long commute for a very physically demanding job. Good workers have better options than trekking out here, and they'd have very few housing options locally compared to 30 years ago. TL;DR there's no magic wand solution to start utilizing the national forest land nestled right here in the most productive timberlands in the country. It's gotta be even worse elsewhere.
  8. Makes it sound kinda like gin originated in Mexico.
  9. Tricia Helfer as Caprica on Battlestar Galactica
  10. Earl giving me his autograph at the practice field during his second year in the league.
  11. "but it *cuts* both ways" would be more appropriate given their history with mental WRs.
  12. I just read an article written an hour ago by an msn analyst who has aggy vs baylor in the Gator Bowl. He also has us beating GA in the CCG, then again at DKR in the CFP. I didn't know the guy, so I read his bio. He left school at 18 to become a milkman.
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