Word: frosts
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...days grow short. A cold wind stirs the fallen leaves, and some mornings the vineyards are daubed with frost. Yet all across France, life has begun anew: the 2007 harvest is in. And what a harvest it has been. At least 727 new novels, up from 683 for last autumn's literary rentrée. Hundreds of new music albums and dozens of new films. Blockbuster art exhibitions at all the big museums. Fresh programs of concerts, operas and plays in the elegant halls and salles that grace French cities. Autumn means many things in many countries, but in France...
...Popular Harvard wisdom holds that we can either be part of the solution to injustices in the world or part of the problem, depending on the jobs we choose. However, the question of which occupations belong in which category is often oversimplified into a single Robert Frost-style fork in the road. We can go the well-worn corporate route, pursuing careers in finance or consulting and working 100 hours a week to afford apartments in Manhattan that, for new hires, are little more than crash pads between marathon workdays. The other option, equally dismal, is to devote oneself purely...
...Friday evening, as TIME met Véronique Robert in a Paris café, amfAR's organizers in Manhattan called her to express concern about Alexandre's alleged attack and ask what she wanted them to do about the Dubai event. The organization's chief executive officer, Kevin Frost, says has not ruled out canceling the fund-raiser - whose tables are selling for between $20,000 and $100,000 each. But he said amfAR sees the event as "an opportunity to raise awareness about AIDS in a part of the world where there's an incredible amount of denial about...
BAINBRIDGE TOWNSHIP, OHIO First frost of the fall hits the East and Midwest...
...series, remembers his contacts fogging up in the Cleveland cold. "I had to keep blinking to keep my eyes moist," he says. "This is a very bad thing. It was almost like a film was over my eyes." The eyes of other players tend to tear up in the frost, which makes if harder for them to see the ball...