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...industry's most prestigious award for illustrated children's books. The Polar Express, also a Caldecott winner, has appeared on best-seller lists in three Christmas seasons since its release in 1985. In this lovely tale, a boy wakes on Christmas Eve to find a train wreathed in steam below his bedroom window, waiting to take him to the North Pole and a meeting with Santa Claus. In all, the nine books Van Allsburg has published over the past decade have sold almost 2 million copies...
Harvard came back from a UConn match point at 14-11 to win the third set, and it looked as if it might have gained some momentum to carry into the final sets. But the Crimson ran out of steam. UConn took the finally set easily...
When HRAAA's campaign--spearheaded by the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--gained steam, however, top Alumni Association officials launched a bitter attack against the group...
...winter nights when the icy west wind swept the town, I sometimes halted on my post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
Indeed, by the end of the game, the faces were covered with rain, the shirts had long since stuck to the skin, and steam was rising from the bodies on Ohiri Field...