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...atmosphere--and, therefore, how our climate might change in the future--some ice-core scientists in the Arctic are training their eyes directly downward. It's an incredibly important job. It's also, as the participants in the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project will attest, incredibly fun. Where else can you snowmobile all day across Olympic-quality piste, make modern art out of 200-year-old ice crystals and relax at "night" (the sun never sets during the arctic summer) with copious amounts of Carlsberg beer delivered by the U.S. Air Force? Oh, and in your downtime...
...part, that's because the body churns through calories in the cold. But those shared meals--featuring steaks half the size of Frisbees on this particular night--and leisurely coffee breaks foster a family atmosphere among the international scientists at NEEM, all but a handful of whom are fun-loving Europeans...
...play; night broke into pieces, for dispensing puppy comfort. As the days went by and we forgave her accidents and idiosyncrasies, we saw her willingly forgive ours: she offered a kind of unreserved, undeserved and unconditional love that made us all more gentle and generous and tuned to the fun in the simplest things. Snow is for rolling in. Fireflies are for chasing. People smell good. When things go wrong, nap. These reminders and revelations were a gift to our family--and could be only more valuable if your house should turn out to be at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...mastermind John Weaver, for example, who helped create the straight-talk candidate eight years ago, called the new strategy "childish" and worried that it "diminishes John McCain." McCain's advisers have tried to alleviate that concern by keeping the attacks light and funny while coaching their candidate to have fun on the trail. Several days after the Paris Hilton spot, the campaign released another online video that mockingly compared Obama to Charlton Heston's Hollywood depiction of a Biblical Moses. "They will call him 'The One,'" intones the ad's narrator. "Can you see the light?" (Though perhaps funny...
Simoncini has learned the hard way that while it's fun to play Cupid, playing publicly held Cupid is another thing altogether. "I used to get 10 e-mails a day from people thanking me for helping them find someone, and it was extraordinary - it made me want to get up in the morning," he says. "Now I forget all about that and all I think about is profitability. It doesn't make me happy...