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...story, told frequently down in Maine, is doubtless apocryphal. But it reflects the fact that despite modern instruments and meteorological methods, weather forecasting of any kind remains at best an inexact science. Dreams of actually doing something about the weather are equally unrealistic. People pausing to rest as they shovel out from under this winter's snows or shivering in chilled homes may look longingly toward a day when science will be able to make weather to order. Was the Big Freeze really necessary? Answer: alas, yes. Despite some limited successes in making it rain on demand, most scientists...
...rebuilding is definitely complex. The gym is on the fourth floor of an old building, the coaches can't recruit, scholarships are forbidden, and there is little if any serious alumni support. However, Harvard basketball is almost always respectable. After one disastrous season, Michael is breaking out his shovel, but his burial plans are just a little early. Judging a very young and inexperienced team on the basis of its first four games is absurd, and any objective reporter, not to mention a home-town one, would not make such a mistake...
...pictured with the big coal shovel [Aug. 23] is not a Kentucky strip miner, as you report...
...pine coffin was imported from Cincinnati ...The iron in the shovel that dug his grave was imported from Pittsburgh ... They buried him in a New York coat and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of breeches from Chicago and a shirt from Cincinnati. The South didn 't furnish a thing on earth for that funeral but the corpse and the hole in the ground...
...Hill of Thyme, a steam shovel scooped up a dozen corpses in front of a crumbling building. Its last living inhabitant, a 111-year-old man named Mohammed Selim Kanaan, was carried out as bands of looters wandered through the streets with armfuls of blankets, radios and canned foods. In the distance, a bell slowly tolled...