Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What comes to mind when you think of Michigan? Snow? Cars? Football? How about summer vacation? Tucked away in the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula are some of the country's best-kept secrets: white sandy beaches, turquoise lakes, towering dunes and a premier training center for young musicians, dancers, artists and actors...
Brother Bill nods a yes and gets back into his car. Driving off, he turns up the volume of Saint-Saens. As rain and snow come down hard on the windshield and the classical music begins a crescendo, the old Catholic missionary looks suddenly weary. He is still recovering from a recent triple-bypass heart operation, and he's been told the prognosis is not good. "People think I'm a fool," he says, "but I love these guys--all of them. I know that many of them have done some really bad things, even killed people. But no matter...
Bill Watterson's final Calvin and Hobbes strip ran Sunday, Dec. 31, 1995. It shows Calvin and Hobbes standing atop a hill, surveying the freshly fallen snow that lies below. Climbing into his sled, Calvin turns and says, "It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...Let's go exploring...
...into a China that appeared to be falling apart. The fading Qin dynasty could not contain the spiraling social and economic unrest, and had mortgaged China's revenues and many of its natural resources to the apparently insatiable foreign powers. It was, Mao later told his biographer Edgar Snow, a time when "the dismemberment of China" seemed imminent, and only heroic actions by China's youth could save...
Overpriced resort food (which is usually left for someone else to clean up) serves as an excellent medium to discuss the morning's adventures. Conversation centers on how good or bad the snow is (usually worse than it was at Aspen last year) and how much better the new pair of skis are (as if the latest model really makes a difference for someone who's greatest accomplishment on skis happens to be their participation in the feat of engineering designed to haul them up the hill...