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Returning to fair Harvard in September can mean a lot of things: the chance to take new classes, see old friends, and enjoy Cambridge without a permanent layer of snow on the ground...
...longer at the point that it is acceptable to throw things at the wall and see what sticks.' MICHAEL SNOW, chairman of the Wikimedia board, on Wikipedia's decision to apply an editorial-review process to articles about living people...
...Kabul Gorge where, in 1842, a retreating British army of 4,500 soldiers, accompanied by 12,000 family members and servants, vanished into the gorge and only one man, a surgeon's assistant on horseback, made it out alive. The rest were massacred or died in the snow...
...ancient as Herodotus' Histories, the waters of the Aras River today trace the Turkish-Armenian border, a messy, 20th century creation of broken bridges and shuttered rail tracks. In the shadow of snow-topped Mount Ararat, the river divides the villages of Halikisla, on the Turkish side, and Bagaran, on the Armenian. Once united, the villages are now separated by a stretch of water little wider than a double bed. Residents never meet, except to cast for trout under the watchful gaze of military guards, or to return an errant...
...guys kiss with your noses?" I suggested. "Yeah, we kiss with our noses!" she said, informing me that I had picked the one not-Eskimo rumor that was true. Feeling even more stupid, I mentioned how dumb it was that we think they have tons of names for snow. Nasuk told me that her native language does indeed have many names for snow. I totally think they kill their old people...