Word: snow
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...Forde airplane crash took 13 lives, but many more died in the following days—only 16 survivors were ultimately recovered by helicopter, weeks after official rescue efforts had been halted. The survivors had, famously, been reduced to eating the remains of their dead companions and drinking melted snow to live...
...Bush Administration doesn't foresee an entirely pain-free fix: its latest budget, released this month, cuts dozens of programs. Still, it argues that continued growth will automatically reduce the size of the budget deficit. And U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow argues that the trade deficit is partly the result of lopsided growth. "We are growing faster than our trading partners, and we are creating more disposable income than they are," Snow said last month. "We need Europe to be more of an engine of growth, and we need Japan to be more of an engine of growth." But TIME...
...military convoy--two humvees, an ambulance and three five-ton trucks full of civilian evacuees--is bumping its way along a snow-swept high-plains dirt road. Suddenly a shout comes down the line: "Contact front!" It's an ambush, with gunmen on both sides of the road. Soldiers on top of the five-tons return fire with mounted machine guns. The clatter is deafening. The truck beds fill up with hot, bouncing, jingling brass shell casings...
...drifted in a lovesick daze back to my room, where I sat down at my computer and tried to start writing. Something wasn’t working. How do you write a juicy exposé about a guy who once rescued a stray dog, used to secretly shovel snow out of his elderly neighbor’s driveway, and is genuinely interested in what everyone has to say? As his sister says, “Matt is one of the most real people you’ll ever meet,” and his commitment...
...Hwang ’08 experienced the first snow of the school year inside a massive, colorful cube. As snowflakes softly descended upon students marching innocently through Harvard Yard, Hwang and a group of upperclassmen were sheltered by a 9.5-by-9.5-foot wooden box they had worked all day to build...