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Plants that Kill

—By Arden Dore Oleander, lily-of-the-valley, mistletoe, and azaleas are among the most beautiful plants. But ingesting them can cause sickness and, in some cases, even death. Below is a…

Getting Into College Is Easier than You Think

  You have a learning disability and you want to go to college. Your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, and tutors are all sweaty over what you're going to do,…

The Celtic Twilight: The Old Town

by W. B. Yeats Earth, Fire and WaterThe Man and His BootsThe Old Town I fell, one night some fifteen years ago, into what seemed the power of faery. I had gone with a young man and his…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Question

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of PanThe Two Spirits: An AllegoryThe Question Published by Leigh Hunt (with the signature Sigma) in "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1822. Reprinted by Mrs.…

1999 March Madness Preview

by Gerry Brown Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and his Blue Devils hope to be cutting down the nets at the Final Four in St. Petersburg three weeks from now. Until then they'll savor their ACC…

The ACT Expose'

Presented by ACT, Inc. There's a little-known secret about the ACT test that you ought to know: You've already been prepping for it. You've already been prepping,…

Brewer's: Nemean Games

(The). One of the four great national festivals of Greece, celebrated at nemea, in Argolis, every alternate year, the first and third of each Olympiad. The victor's reward was at first a…

Brewer's: Bacchant

A person given to habits of drinking; so called from the “bacchants,” or men admitted to the feasts of Bacchus. Bacchants wore fillets of ivy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Bacchante

(2 syl.) A female winebibber; so called from the “bacchantes,” or female priestesses of Bacchus. They wore fillets of ivy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…