Word: snow
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Chabon's prose is so awesome, it's a crime not to quote it. "Look at Landsman," he writes, "one shirttail hanging out, snow-dusted porkpie knocked to the left, coat hooked to a thumb over his shoulder. Hanging on to a sky-blue cafeteria ticket as if it's the strap keeping him on his feet." There's hardly a mot here that's not juste. Likewise, a cartoon dog evokes "the obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy...
...wintry Hanover, the men’s lightweights raced Dartmouth and MIT on Saturday for the Biglin Bowl, which the Big Green took home last year.While Cambridge may not be experiencing the most spring-like conditions at the moment, there is still snow on the ground in New Hampshire.“For me going up to Hanover felt like going back in time,” said second varsity coxswain Kevin He. “The river just opened up two weeks ago, so there are still ice floes floating around.”The competition in Hanover...
This Sunday’s forecast calls for a 60 percent chance of a rain and snow...
...heavy doors, Harvard’s next president probably felt freshman jitters. It was a snowy day in mid-March and Drew G. Faust was facing a crowd of the University’s most prominent donors. To make things worse, she was late, delayed by sleet and snow...
...main reason has to do with the Arctic and Antarctic. As polar climates warm enough for trees to move in, the color of that part of the earth will change, as viewed from above. Green trees, which absorb more light, will replace whiter snow and ice, which reflect more rays back to space. Like a dark-colored car hood on a hot day, a dark-colored earth will warm. The group’s computer modeling experiments show that the localized warming due to the change in the earth’s surface reflectivity (called its “albedo?...