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...blocks. They become far more civil, even amiable, finally speaking directly to the staff, asking and answering questions. They spend a great deal of time in bed, trying to preserve their strength. The staff puts sheepskin rugs in their beds to warm their bodies, now slowly turning colder. Although they refuse medication, the men do ask the nurses to give them liniment rubdowns to soften their parched skin. A barber comes in once a week to trim their hair and, if they are feeble, give them a shave. The prisoners are weighed daily and always anxiously demand to know...
...court conditions were colder than we're used to, but it gave the team a chance to practice our three-wall shots for Princeton," Cunningham said...
...sixth place overall in the Giant Slalom competition at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival. Although Klaussen has not yet technically qualified for nationals, his Dartmouth performance should assure him a qualifying slot. Hailing from Squaw Valley, California, Klaussen comments that east coast mountains are "a lot smaller and a lot colder"...The ski team as a whole finished seventh out of ten...not bad since the competition included last year's national champion. University of Vermont...
...nearly 800 miles off the California coast for the past two months, blocking the usual flow of moist air from the Pacific and keeping the area dryer (and warmer) than usual. Meanwhile, the jet stream that moves eastward across the continent and down from Canada is bringing dryer (and colder) air than usual to the northeastern U.S. The stream has not looped south far enough to sweep up warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, as it did during the relatively balmy winter...
Canaday C-entry eats together, stringing together one in-joke after another. They talk about putting the doorknob through the wall, and they joke about their janitor. No one complains about "isolation" or unfriendly neighbors. "I expected people to be a lot colder. Everyone, especially the people in my entry, is very nice," one freshman says...