Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Neither rain nor sleet nor snow would keep All-American James Blake from living up to that adjective...
...Lane, reading signs is common sense. Thicker than normal fur on wild animals is a dead giveaway that cold weather is coming. Rings around the moon mean rain or snow is on the way soon. "Nature has a way of taking care of her own," says Lane. "If you pay attention, then you know what you need...
Instead, they base the festivities on the harvest. Because autumn comes earlier to Canada, if they waited until the end of November, snow would cover the crops and there wouldn't be much of a reason to party. But it's no revelation to Canadians that Americans don't know when to hold their own holiday. "Canadian Thanksgiving is set on a day that makes sense. We have a better sense of how to do everything," says James Y. Ko '00, a Toronto native...
Unlike city recreational parks, the Arboretum is quite and peaceful, with ample sitting areas and quite refuges. While winter will bring the beauty of snow-graced tree branches, autumn offers comfortable weather and colorful trees and plants...
...that should make us loath to return to those days of good intentions gone horribly awry, the early 1990s. For one thing, activists turned into absolutists. Healthy debate got thrown out the window. It's hard to have a spirited, enlightened discussion when both sides have set up their snow forts on each side of the lawn, nobody venturing forth into the middle lest he or she be pelted by a barrage of threats, epithets, and slurs, all delivered with the subtlety of a baseball bat over the head...