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...Homo sapiens: the ability to step out of the food chain and, however momentarily, refuse to compete." With Todd now vanished and Ressler gone, she impulsively quits her job to record the months the three of them spent together -- talking all night while the computers whirred, enjoying a snowbound weekend in New Hampshire -- and to find out what happened to Stuart Ressler...
...Michigan's Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. "It's sort of a Star Wars fantasy." Even Southern California Edison officials concede it would take billions of dollars and decades of public works to electrify the streets of Los Angeles. There may never be electric roads in the snowbound Midwest or in Eastern cities subject to the freeze-and-thaw cycles that turn the best-made highways into roller coasters of bumps and potholes...
There may be new stadiums in Florida and big microwave dishes beside them to beam games to snowbound fans back home. But so far, at least, traditionalists need not worry. As the Reds battled past the Cards a couple of weeks ago, a boy ran a ballpoint pen along the bullpen fence. Jeff Gray, a young Cincinnati reliever, smiled and started walking toward him. The boy arced his baseball over the fence, and Gray caught it easily and said, "Where do you want me to sign...
...England Collegiate Croquet Association, the only such regional group in the country, two years ago. She said she moved the national championship match north for the first time in the tournament's short history because Southern schools, with their year-round sunshine, always held the advantage over their snowbound counterparts...
...government mobilized the army for emergency relief operations. Personnel carriers ferried supplies to snowbound regions, and army helicopters flew pregnant women to hospitals to have their babies. In London, where temperatures dipped as low as 16 degrees, churches opened their doors to the homeless. Officials at the London zoo locked the lions inside cages for fear they would escape from their enclosures by walking across a frozen moat...