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...Familiarity breeds euphemism; the Eskimos, they say, have 50 words for snow; in the Middle East they?ve got 88 for God. The Fed has its term for futility, and these days we have been hearing it a lot lately. But the great need - the market imbalance, as it were - is for a few more euphemisms for futility in Washington politics, where it is as common as comb-overs...
Indeed, the holes confirmed what Thompson already strongly suspected--that the snow-clad ice fields of Kilimanjaro, immortalized by Ernest Hemingway as "great, high and unbelievably white," are undergoing such rapid warming that they are likely to vanish altogether in another 15 years. And if that happens, Thompson realized, then all that will remain of Kilimanjaro's crowning white glory will be whatever fragments he and his colleagues managed to bring back to Ohio State and stash in their Arctic-cold freezer...
...almost at once, Servais lost it. While he was crossing the Russian steppes by night, the cello fell off a sled. The horrified traveler immediately retraced his route. And there in the snow he found the instrument - intact, though only just. During the night, wolves had gnawed at the leather straps keeping shut its case, but they had not managed to open it. Roll over Stradivari...
...woman on the plane was unsettling. I am a book-worshipper, and there seemed a form of sacrilege in her mentioning she had never read a book as if she were telling Nancy that she had never gone scuba-diving or snow-boarding - as if reading books were, you know, a lifestyle, like vegetarianism or Pilates...
...Back at the American village a month after the incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...