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Finally, as fine flakes of snow powdered the gray morning sky on Thursday, Reagan and Gorbachev broke their public silence and converged on the drab concrete bunker in Geneva that serves as an international conference center to tell the world what their private fireside summit had produced. Their report was modest. As Gorbachev put it in a brief, formal statement, the talks had failed at "solving of the most important problems concerning the arms race." He cautioned, "If we really want to succeed in something, then both sides are going to have to do an awful lot of work." Nonetheless...
...Fifth-Grader Emily Myers, 10, sits at an upright piano practicing Silent Night for the Christmas pageant. Close by, a second grader starts her daily struggle with sums, while a fifth grader plays a geography game on a computer. Both seem oblivious to the plinking of the carol. Outside, snow is falling on waves of brown, sage-spotted hills...
...course, their father has taken them shooting. With or without the twins, it is time for classes to begin. Erica Hess, 11, has the school-bell duty today. But the rope has broken, so she blows a whistle out the door. Her schoolmates troop in, put their snow boots in a neat row, then line up to pledge allegiance to the flag and sing My Country, 'Tis of Thee...
Around a deeply rural place like Hanging Woman--so named, according to local legend, for a homesteader who used a noose to end her lonely life--school buses cannot get through the deep winter snow or spring mud. Therefore in 1981 the Kendrick Cattle Co., dominant ranchers in the area, provided the school building and a trailer to house Teacher Paula Brown, 28; the county came up with books, desks, the computer and Brown herself. "You have to take the school to the children if you can't bring them to the school," explains Audrey Cotherman, Wyoming's deputy state...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...