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...wild, consider driving your own canine crew on holiday: one afternoon managing the tangle of tugging harnesses and sled brakes as the huskies yelp and yowl, and you may never get back in your car. The dogs can run up to 5,000 km in a season, often through snow crystals at -25˚C. "There is a strong feeling of being dependent on the small but incredibly strong huskies to reach our goals each day," says Espen Prestbakmo, a trip leader in Norway. Choose from a variety of sites: Alaska for the wildlife (Alaska's Trails and Tails...
Everybody talks about the weather, but James O'Brien is often rendered speechless by it. He's spent hours watching how snow forms drifts around buildings and how mud moves when someone steps in it. O'Brien, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the world's top experts on how to make computers simulate complex physical systems--such as waves, snowdrifts, viscoelastic fluids (goopy stuff, like mud) and (his favorite) explosions. His work lends a layer of reality to computer games and film animation in which wind, rain...
...Nobody wants to be stuck up here in the snow any more than they have to,” men’s swimming co-captain Andrew B. Krna ’05 said. “It’s difficult, but I’d much rather spend the time with my team somewhere warm...
Most retailers agreed that the week before Christmas is the busiest week of the year, despite the inconvenience of yesterday’s snow...
...people aren’t going to trudge through the snow, especially when there