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...Think Locally, Act Locally It was just over 10 years ago when the first sign appeared: From now on we will be here every Thursday, always at 4 p.m. - whether there is sun, rain or snow. We want to start a children's group and would like you to participate! The meeting spot was a playground in Cologne's Chorweiler district, whose high-rise blocks became home to many of the migrants that the Ford Motor Co. recruited into Germany in the '70s. Of Chorweiler's 80,000 residents, 60% have immigrant backgrounds and a third are on welfare. Lale...
...electrical engineer with his son and grandson, a woman in the wholesale food business and others. But as they eagerly dressed to go outside, I began to wonder. Certainly, even from indoors, the view was magnificent. At a few minutes before sunrise on a brilliant Sunday morning, the snow-covered mountains to the north and west were tinted pink while the valleys below still lay in shadow. But venturing out didn't seem like the wisest move: the temperature hovered around --10° F, and the wind was blowing at a steady 40 m.p.h. or so--except when it gusted...
...even the tallest in the eastern U.S. (Mount Mitchell in North Carolina beats it by several hundred feet). But the weather here is some of the worst in the world. Storms blow up without warning. Every so often a hiker caught unawares by plunging temperatures, fierce winds and snow squalls dies of hypothermia...
...that's precisely the experience members of this group were looking for. To get it, they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with...
...that a process which impacts the economics faculty and students as little as possible.â€Over Thursday departmental lunches and in the corridors of Littauer’s second floor, Stock and his colleagues talked informally about the plan over the last calendar year.THE ‘SNOW-BALLING EFFECT’Art historians based in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum said they understood their colleagues across the Yard.“I do sympathize deeply with the economics department,†Chair of History of Art and Architecture Thomas B.F. Cummins said...