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...prepared for the unexpected in Memphis. The only certainty of Memphis weatheris that it will be hot in July and August. TheCity has been known to experience tanning weather,snow and highs in the 80s during the same week.Bring both sweatshirts and stores...
...something unintelligible. Thousands of Italians waved flags for Tomba; when Teruel completes his run, he looks around for cheers and finds none. One French volunteer gives him a thumbs-up sign and two others clap. Spectators in the stands by now are as rare as daisies in the snow. The photographers have gone off for lunch, and the TV crews are preparing their Tomba stories. Still, the man now in 85th place hopes there will be more watchers for his second run, if only to see Tomba come out to collect a bouquet. If Alberto wins today," he offers gamely...
Panjwin and Qala Diza, villages on the Iranian frontier, are smuggling centers where a vibrant and imaginative black market has sprung up. Though the area is under heavy snow, fast-buck gangs transport tools, machinery, even construction equipment to sell in Iran, returning with food and spare parts for cars and trucks. Almost all the eggs in Kurdistan come from Iran, painstakingly brought in by foot...
...principle of creating "a way of life based on the joy found in effort." He's a winner cut from fresh, unbleached cloth. Perhaps a champion whose training segues so perfectly into his recreation can only emerge in a sport that doesn't need jumps or rinks, just snow and distance...
...Winter Games are more informal and convivial than the Summer ones. At Les Saisies, a picturesque winterscape of red bridges in the snow, where the first women's biathlon in Olympic history was being held, snowballing was actually the favorite event, and children bobsledded without benefit of sleds. Scores of jolly Norwegians sang folk songs around an accordion and swayed in place, beating time with the poles of enormous Norwegian flags. But even here clocks were ticking everywhere, and as the athletes set off on lonely 25- minute journeys, instants were getting ready to be replayed in the pause...