Word: snowstorms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead he is trapped in time. He wakes up the next day to discover it is still Feb. 2. The same people he saw on Groundhog Day say the same things; the same unforeseen snowstorm blows into town; Punxsutawney is Brigadoon. Phil is angry, then reckless, then depressed, then suicidal. Yet he can't die, he can't escape. He can only change. So in the dozens of Groundhog Day replays, he puts his familiarity with the town to humane use: a child falls from a tree and, because Phil knows it will happen, he can catch...
Saturday became a winter nightmare-land for Harvard and other nearby schools when a day-long snowstorm dropped up to 10 inches of snow on the Boston area...
Next year Edmonds' Vietnam course will be transmitted to 20 off-campus sites around the state. And what about the guest lecturer who was grounded in Chicago by a snowstorm? No problem: out-of-town speakers can visit an interactive TV studio and get beamed directly into a Ball State classroom...
...Gorbachev: "We love going for walks, to be in nature." Raisa: "He is exaggerating. He is always working. We have no time to be together. I hope all this will come." Gorbachev: "Nature is everything to us. We prefer to go for walks in winter, when there is a snowstorm. Everything disappears in a veil of snow. In these moments, you feel eternity...
...miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed by a snowstorm that had obliterated the horizon. "We were forced into a situation where we had to make a really important decision," says Ulvang. A decision to turn back? Hardly. The question was how much to eat. They halved their rations, picked up the pace and completed the trip in 15 days...