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...island, the green of Central Park, the shimmering top of each skyscraper.) On cloudy days, I spot the shadows of clouds on the land far below. On rotten days, the plane flies above the weather. Below you, stretching out forever, is a floor of cloud that looks like snow...
...cloudy winter afternoon, Florann Greenberg, a teacher at P.S. 14 in New York City, noticed that her first-grade class was growing fidgety. One girl, dropping all pretense of work, stared at the snow falling outside the schoolroom windows. Annoyed, Greenberg asked her, "Haven't you seen snow before?" The girl whispered, "No." Her classmates began shaking their heads. Then it dawned on Greenberg: of course these children had never seen snow; almost all were immigrants from Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Immediately, she changed the lesson plan. New topic: What is snow? How is it formed...
Guerrilla theater note, environmental division, bad-pun subdivision: last month Sierra Club members in Jackson, Wyoming, operating as the Not Yours, Mine, Mining Co., staked a claim to U.S. Forest Service land, now leased to the Snow King Resort and used for a ski lift. The point was to demonstrate that under archaic U.S. law, such claiming of the right to lease public land for mining is entirely legal. At press time, plans for actual mining were not firm...
...found OCS really discouraging," says AaronJ. Snow '93, who is now a computer programmer."They point you to the right notebook and say golook for your job, and I wasn't ready for that.OCS is a really intimidating place and they don'tdo very much to make you feel at ease," he says...
...even come to like the snow. Sure, blizzards in May are a tad excessive, but at least when it snows, enough of the white stuff sticks around to turn the campus into a gorgeous winter wonderland. (In Seattle, a few inches fall, the entire city shuts down in panic and by the next day, it all turns to grey slush...