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...course, I really could be anywhere, at any time. I could be a traveler in 19th century Russia, for instance, tromping from village to village on some unspecified romantic errand, crushing the thick-caked snow under my boots and taking courage from the lights of the candles in the cottages, if you catch my drift. Winter lights have much the same power the world over...
...public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...
...bring you greetings from the long ago and our first snow together. Our eyes watered and our lips turned blue, but you refused to go inside. You said that the snow was meant for us alone, and so we stayed out until it got dark and darker still, and there was no light in the world...
...classic novel Snow Country, the Nobel prizewinning writer Yasunari Kawabata depicted the mountains of Japan's far north as the place where jaded urbanites could come to bathe in a forgotten innocence--symbolized by the cool Tokyo dilettante who takes up with a local geisha. At the book's haunting end, the man is returning to his wife in Tokyo, suitably refreshed, and the country girl, heartbroken, is left with only memories. Therein lies the promise, and the danger, of what promise to be splendid Games...
Cross-country-skiing coaches dream of athletes like Philip Boit, 26, who is blessed with a long stride, a powerful upper body, endurance and stamina. One problem: Boit, a Kenyan middle-distance runner, had never seen snow until 1996, when he was recruited by Nike to test the proposition that good runners make good skiers. He has cut his time for the 10-km classic race from 2 hr. to a creditable 30 min. But Boit has no illusions about challenging Norway's Bjorn Daehlie, who won the 1994 gold with a time of 24:20.1. "Even if I finish...