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Rolling plains and snow-capped peaks greet you as the Charles River dips into a bend that is Harvard Square, the crown jewel of extreme southern Vermont. Home to elite Lesley College (founded in 1492 by William “John” Harvard), Harvard Square boasts staggering diversity: men and women, students and non-students, domesticated animals and wild, feral dogs. Savvy travelers will walk back and forth, to and fro and from left to right as they savvily unearth the hidden secrets of Harvard Square’s historical history. Like every city, town and municipality we have...
...train barreled over Joseph Hewins' body on a wintry evening in 1845 in the Massachusetts Berkshires. Hewins had spent the workday shoveling snow off the tracks, only to be killed on his trip back to town when a switchman got distracted. Hewins left behind a wife and three children, who were poor even before his death. His widow sued but lost at every level. Had the train merely chopped off Hewins' leg, the railroad would have paid. But in the perverse logic of that time, when a man died, he took his legal claims with him. And so the thinking...
Uruzgan nestles in a pristine valley ringed by snow-capped peaks that form a natural fortress in the mountains north of Kandahar. Its orchards climb peacefully to the snowline, a spectacle of pastoral tranquility that belies the village's emergence as the site of the largest U.S. ground operation of the Afghan conflict - and the most tragic...
TIME: How has your training gone? Menyoli: It's just terrible. I'm not happy with the way that we have no snow in Wisconsin. Yesterday, it was 55 [degrees Fahrenheit]. Man. Last year, we had so much snow. This is the wrong year to go to Winter Olympics! Maybe I should have done the Tour de France. Just so you know, almost 98% of my training has been on dry land. So I have trained only on roller skis, a piece of metal with two wheels at the end. The last 2% was when I was racing. That...
TIME: Have you been improving? Menyoli: It's so hard to tell. I can't really tell if I'm improving because skiing on snow is so different. I will only be able to tell in Salt Lake City...