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...those of you looking for an explanation, the short version is that the river is moving water. So it freezes incrementally and not at all consistently. The ice may be thick in some places and not as thick in others. And it can change rapidly (during the day and overnight). So just because some idiot made it across, leaving his footprints, you might easily fall through following the same path a few hours or a day later...
...auto-industry bailout skewed in favor of GM, Fiat and the United Auto Workers. At the same time, Stevens' picture of corporate fat cats oppressing the little guy ignores the revolution in campaign finance and communications that is being wrought by the Internet. Viable candidacies can now be launched overnight by the enthusiasm of small donors. Times have never been better for a candidate who manages to fire the interest of grass-roots voters...
...silence filling the Houses can be explained, in part, by rules put into place by the College that ban parties and overnight guests. The regulations threaten non-compliant students with dismissal from housing this winter and potentially during future winters...
When was the last time, as a tourist, that an old man stopped you in the street just to say hello? In a time of overnight city breaks and sequestered spa retreats, shaking hands with old-timers in straw hats with names like Joao Baptista (who turns out to be the local historian) may seem like a simple pleasure, but it is an increasingly rare one. Then again, Ibo Island in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique is a very rare place. (See pictures of luxury private islands...
...help clear snow-covered roads, putting them to work in temperatures as low as 10°F (-12°C). More than 30 highways were closed in northern China, and a train in the Inner Mongolia region hit a snowbank 6 ft. (2 m) high, trapping its 1,400 passengers overnight. Other parts of North Asia also experienced unprecedented winter storms; Seoul received 11 ft. (3.3 m) of snow, the most it had seen since...