Word: snow
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...Reindeer, which was open for just 23 days and nights in the run-up to Christmas, was booked solid before it even existed. More than 11,000 lunch and dinner slots in a candlelit winter wonderland, complete with snow-dusted pine trees, were filled by Nov. 1, thanks to an October spot on YouTube, a viral e-mail campaign and word of mouth. It helped that the Reindeer's creators, Pablo Flack and David Waddington, who also helm an East End venue called Bistroteque, are particularly plugged in. A former fashion student turned restaurateur, Waddington studied at Central St. Martins...
While the cloudy Cambridge skies and snow-capped lecture halls may seem innocuous to many students, the belated winter weather can lead to depression for others...
Blame it on the snow. Thanks to the Valentine’s Day snow storm, last night’s women’s squash match against Yale lacked the electricity usually provided by the post-season implications of the annual late season meeting between the two rivals. That’s because the match, which was originally slated to be played last Wednesday, had to be postponed a week—meaning it took place after, and not before, the Crimson’s national championship match against Princeton at the Howe Cup last weekend...
...winter weather hasn’t affected my mood that much,” said Abraham Lin ’10, of Sunnyvale, Calif, “although I have friends back home who wouldn’t be able to survive the cold and snow...
...While that's good news for China's economy, environmentalists are worried. The Tibet plateau, known as the Roof of the World, is an average of 15,000 feet above sea level and is home to rare snow leopards and Tibetan antelope. Much of it is largely untouched. "At that high altitude, the ecosystem is very fragile. Once you damage it will takes decades to recover," says Wen Bo, China program director for Pacific Environment, a San Francisco-based NGO. "Already the plateau is facing serious problems. If you're going to mine it's not going to get better...