Word: frigidities
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...Waimea, nestled in the midst of cattle-ranching country on Hawaii's Big Island, thick clouds are scudding past, occasionally dipping low enough to send a driving mist across the grassy hills. But the telescopes are some 25 miles away and more than two miles up, in the thin, frigid air at the summit of the extinct volcano Mauna Kea. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the observatory sits well above the cloud deck. Live video-camera images piped down to the Waimea control room show white domes silhouetted against a fading but crystal-clear...
...wonders, Sayansi must surely occupy a top spot. Perhaps, though, the decoration was merely a way of declaring, “I must be reckoned with,” which is surely true in my instance.So, I enter the building and proceed into the appropriate office. It is absolutely frigid, and I am well aware Tanzanians have lately been experiencing severe power rationing. Of course, Science and Technology—or rather, issuing the permits that make Science and Technology permissible, insofar as these materialize at all in Tanzania—needs the comforts only arctic climes can offer...
...city of Chicago is famous for many things - frigid windy winters, fine architecture, the hapless Cubs, to name a few - but high fashion is not one of them. For most people, what usually comes to mind when thinking of fashion in the City of Big Shoulders is baseball caps and khakis. But Mayor Richard M. Daley thinks he can change all that. Daley recently announced the creation of a Fashion Advisory Council, a city-backed coalition of local designers and industry champions who will promote fashion growth. By nurturing designers, the city hopes to bolster its retail economy, gain tourism...
Ever since I first stepped onto campus for prefrosh weekend four years ago, I’ve done a lot of complaining about Harvard. That beautiful afternoon quickly turned into a frigid night, during which I went to a party that, predictably, just didn’t compare to the one I had attended at another school’s visiting program. I eventually decided to come to Harvard in spite of this less-than-thrilling experience, but my complaining was only getting started. I was lucky enough to live with wonderful roommates during my freshman year. They...
Vultaggio found his next business, iced tea, through his most trusted adviser: his gut. On a frigid February day in 1990, a Snapple delivery truck interrupted his sales pitch with a lower Manhattan store owner. "I'm knocking myself out trying to get a five-case order of beer, and this guy is taking 100 iced teas," Vultaggio says. "What am I doin'? I said, I gotta go into the tea business." That was his million-dollar focus group. "Yeah, I was focusing," he says. "Wow, that...