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...field of vision in the water is startling. Mostly the technology succeeds, however, not because it makes you feel you're underwater so much as that you're no longer on solid ground. At several points, you almost want to hold your breath. (See photos of life beneath Antarctic ice...
...perverse historical chance dropped the holiday of elegant evening dates down on the part of the calendar worst suited for it. Erratic mountains of ice and curbsides which drop off into unfriendly black abysses make walking anywhere in February a chore. Add in impractical shoes, uncomfortable clothes, and high expectations, and the chore can become catastrophe...
Love may be in the air for Valentine’s Day this weekend, but there certainly will not be warm feelings in the Bright Hockey Center. Tonight, the Harvard men’s ice hockey team will look to avoid a slip-up against Colgate (8-15-5, 3-10-3 ECAC). Tomorrow the Crimson (5-14-4, 5-7-4) will play one of its most anticipated games of the season as it faces off against bitter and historic rival Cornell (15-4-4, 10-3-3) in what is sure to be an intense and physical battle...
Weather may have been a factor in the Buffalo incident. According to Accuweather.com, at the time of the crash, winds were gusting up to 25 mph, visibility was down to three miles because of snow and other planes at the same time "reported a bit of ice on their wings." (See "Plane Crash in the Hudson River...
...lights but not a single fellow civilian. Deserted shopping complexes and the occasional pack of home-bound partiers constituted the early morning scene at the riverbank. The light of a purring black helicopter scanned the fractured sheets coating the Potomac, while a hovercraft zipped over them, fissuring the fragile ice. I imagined the FBI sweeping in and rounding us all up for trespassing. That would be a hell of a way to miss an inauguration. It turned out we had not trespassed. We emerged from under the Theodore Roosevelt bridge, tromped across Constitution Gardens, and reached the array of virgin...