When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat.

Given space and the right conditions, however, enchanter’s nightshade does spread by fine, brittle, white running rhizomes.

The State Department has hired hundreds of new passport adjudicators, put employees to work around the clock and opened a new processing facility in Arkansas but has still been unable to meet the demand [for the issuance of new passports].

the days of my undergraduacy long ago when there used to be these very long Saturday afternoons in the fall with nothing to do […]