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Perhaps Cambridge's dearth of snow so far this year has kept us skeptical that winter's really coming. But when I lived at home, even a snowless Long Island December was never enough to preclude the lights lining houses and entangled in leafless trees that let us know it was time to go shopping...
...outrageous weather limited to North America. Hailstones the size of tennis balls last week bombarded France, a country whose precious vacation time has been marred of late by blazing springs, cool summers and snowless ski slopes. Farmers in western Queensland, Australia, are currently suffering through the state's longest and most widespread drought. New Delhi recorded ^ its hottest day in more than 40 years in June; Rome last week had its hottest day of this century. Torrential rains have become so severe in Hong Kong that meteorologists coined a new term -- black rainstorm alert -- to signal their approach. Weather-related...
...line Santa is not the only Mr. Claus to carry a Salvation Army bell. In snowless downtown Boston, there are thin Santas and fat Santas and bell-ringers in blue jeans and sweats...
Even in a state budget crisis there are huge white lights hanging from almost every tree in Boston Common, where sleigh rides take weary shoppers on a snowless ride through the city's center. A Christmas tree and menorah keep up the pretense of holiday cheer inside the gold-topped State House, where carollers sing while a weary legislature trims a budget rather than a tree...
...proud and fiery Yugoslavs have quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...