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...simple drawings. A polar-bear cub ventures out of the cozy den where her mother sleeps, drawn by "something in the moonlit stillness [that] quietly beckons. What is it?" The air of expectancy and mystery builds as she passes other sleeping animals--walrus, seals, whales--and arrives atop a mountain of snow, where "she waits, wondering." The moon, her companion, waits with her. Then a spectacular shower of shooting stars lights up the world and the other animals, and the little bear shines bright too. After this moment of mystical harmony with nature, she trudges home to her mother...
Instead, thanks largely to the unending energy of one Mollie H. Chen ’05, I ended up taking on extra duties for them. Mollie, the magazine’s chair, tackles each week’s production night like a mountain lion leaping out of the woods to knock a bicycle rider to the ground. But not a lion that goes for the jugular—a lion that covers the rider’s mouth and tears open his backpack to look for granola bars...
...sites: Alaska for the wildlife (Alaska's Trails and Tails, tel: [1-888] 300 6874; www.dogsledtours.com); Greenland for the Inuit culture (Ilulissat Travel, tel: [299] 94 43 00; www.ilulissattravel.gl); and for chic ice hotels and easy access, Norway (Undervegs, tel: [47] 98 00 1213; www.undervegs.no) and Sweden (Axehandle Mountain, tel: [46] 70 688 7290; www.axehandle.nu). And if dog-powered sports leave you panting like a husky, bow out and watch Alaska's annual Iditarod race in March (tel: [1-907] 376 5155; www.iditarod.com...
They come from conferences that traditionally don’t get a lot of respect. The Mountain West and the Ivy League aren’t exactly names that send shivers down opposing coaches’ spines...
While Minnesota has now played the best of the WCHA and Harvard and shown that it is king of the mountain, Dartmouth has yet to play any team ranked in the top five nationally...