Inherent in their progress from the bottom of the totem pole as freshman to upper class seniors, are expectations.

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It seems that Garriott, who has been to the South Pole and the bottom of the ocean, is running out of adventures down here.

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Of course, if I had decided years earlier to just become an expert in health policy, or whatever, I could have started in quickly at the bottom of the media totem pole and risen more or less swiftly toward the top, earning some sort of income instead of piling up debt.

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Robert Wilson, 49, from Borden, Hampshire, fell on his bottom after sliding down a fireman's pole during a week's camp at Clyne Farm.

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Artur Chilingarov, an adventurer and deputy speaker of Russia's parliament, led two Russian mini-submarines to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean beneath the North Pole, where he collected gravel and planted the Russian flag.

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Wells Mason's chairs, benches, and tables are simultaneously playful and--with their stark joining of organic and man-made materials (such as the Baltic birch, stainless steel, and fiberboard embedded in a telephone pole in the Shelf Life chair, bottom)--aesthetically and intellectually challenging.

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Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa are going head-to-head for the world championship and you can bet your bottom Brazilian Real (worth a whole 28p) that both will go all out for pole.

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