Word: snow
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Snoozing at the mouth of a narrow valley, its air perfumed by nearby steel plants, its riverbank paved for a parking lot, its squat office buildings ringed by mounds of sooty snow, Albertville hardly seems destined for global fame. But raise your eyes above the small-town skyline: the Olympian glory of the French Alps explodes in a pastel sunset, sparkling through pine-serrated glaciers. After Sarajevo's Bosnian backwater and Calgary's urban stampede, the 16th Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys...
DRAG RACING ON SNOW...
...FAVORITE MOMENT in Father of theBride takes place in the Banks' driveway onthe night before the wedding. Annie and George,unable to sleep, are discussing how difficulttheir imminent separation will be. And then itbegins to snow. The first snowfall in San Marino,California, in 36 years. George starts to speak,then stops...
Wrong. The next morning, Franck's constructioncrew melts the snow off the tulips with a blowdryer. The swans are given lukewarm baths and aredeclared ready to go. Sure, a beautiful weddingrequires love, but it requires swans, too. Thismakes sense in a Franckophilic world where theultimate badge of dishonor is a blue tuxedo, where"a commitment to traditional family values" costsnearly $150,000, where the ultimate moral maladyis an inability to "let go." Poor people can'trelate to these values? Well, let them...
While scientists estimate that approximately one half-ton of meteorites falls to Earth every year, most of this matter is not recoverable. Meteorites can be found with relative ease, however, on the snow and ice of Antarctica, leading geologists like Marvin to travel there in search of samples...