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...Where I come from, Canada, it’s dark for months at a time, so when I first came here all I really knew how to do was be pale and ice fish,” Hendry said. “But when I first met Curran he taught me how to unleash my inner bronzed Adonis, and I taught him how to hunt polar bears with a hockey stick. So even though I lost, I believe that everyone here is a winner...
...limits, and his muscle does too. When Grassley said the chances weren't great for passage of the dividend tax elimination, the president personally leaned on him in a meeting at the White House. "He's back on the reservation," a senior administration aide said afterwards. Grassley did look pale after he emerged from the Bush treatment,? but the color came back quickly. The Iowan helped ink a quiet side deal in early April that limited the size of the tax cut to $350 billion in the Senate and that caused Hastert to fog his glasses...
...experience at close range the raw and diverse geography created by erosion, volcanism and shifting tectonic plates. If you start at Zabriskie Point (a setting for Michelangelo Antonioni's film and the best place in the valley to watch the sun rise), you can trek down 2.8 miles past pale blue-green desert holly shrubs, sun-drenched yellow badlands, the fluted walls of Red Cathedral and the pinnacle of stately Manley Beacon and end up at the base of Golden Canyon--named for its radiance in the morning light...
...Even in more-developed places like Hong Kong and Beijing, hospitals have had to scramble to create discrete infection wards and procure enough respirators to treat SARS. Economically laggard cities like Hohhot simply can't muster the resources as quickly. "Facilities at Beijing hospitals pale in comparison to those at American hospitals," says Jia Xueyi, a deputy director of Inner Mongolia's propaganda department, "and facilities at Hohhot's hospitals pale in comparison to hospitals in Beijing...
Dartboard was delighted to cautiously expose sun-deprived skin this week after months of brisk New England weather. Unfortunately, while tempting the melanoma gods, Dartboard was also subjected to the perennial bellyaching of pale Harvard youth: If only we were in Southern California right now—it would be like this every...