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...Temperatures can drop to ?30C in April, so players have to tee off in the type of gear usually sported by polar explorers. Competitors need crampons to grip the icy course, tinted goggles to reduce glare and golf clubs with steel shafts, as graphite can shatter in extreme cold. The local wildlife also creates some unique challenges. The course is watched over by spotters with rifles in case one of the archipelago's 3,000 polar bears starts taking too close an interest in a caddy...
...brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges of temperatures?from 50C to minus 30C?on the planet. The landscape is not only inhospitable, it is also dangerous: on the island of Vozrozhdeniye, in the drying Aral Sea, is what used to be the largest biological weapons testing facility ever built...
Hamlet--Boston Shakespeare Co. Theater, 30C Mass Ave., Boston...
Tips to waiters not to exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into...
...stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying to the cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee...