Some foreign basketball players aren't exactly roughing it in the more-cosmopolitan cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

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There are many college savings calculators on the Internet that are helpful in roughing out a plan.

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They overcome their pre-midlife crises by doing the middle-class equivalent of going wild and roughing it sleeping in bunkhouses and pulling off pranks like short-sheeting a bed.

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Marie - who could be glamorous when she wanted to and was as at home in London high society as she was roughing it on warfronts - gave my daughter Shona a faux Coco Chanel handbag as an arrival present.

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While the referee's arm was raised, Arron Asham went after McDonald in the corner, starting a scrum and earning a roughing penalty that left the sides skating 4-on-4.

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McMillan said her many experiences "roughing it" as a field geologist helped her deal with the living conditions in Mississippi.

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