Word: thaws
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Colebrook, just 10 miles south of the Canadian border, is a town of 2,500 people, almost all of whom are friendly, almost all of whom are reserved. It is a town that pops up periodically in the national news: this is where Harry K. Thaw was captured after murdering Stanford White in 1906; this is where millionaire murderer Christopher Wilder killed himself in 1984 after being cornered by police; east of town in Dixville Notch is where the nation's first votes are cast every four years. Ordinarily, though, the biggest events in town are the Blessing...
...smells like. It is an exercise in stream of consciousness for my students at Long Island University's Southampton College. The school is small and unadorned, spread out on a rise overlooking a bay; it is about to come in to flowers of its own in the reluctant spring thaw...
...dozens to a deliciously informal feast and pulled together the community. After the dinner, students dispersed in groups, chatting together as they headed back to their dorms under the fluorescent lights of the yard. As they discussed blocking groups and upcoming papers, the first year formal and the winter thaw, they unknowingly took part in the most valuable--and yes, religious--interchange Harvard can offer...
...might be just around the corner. Seoul newspapers report that Hwang has given the CIA a list of five to seven other high-ranking North Korean functionaries willing to defect. Seoul will doubtlessly be only too happy to oblige. While the Clinton Administration sees the news as a helpful thaw as it tries to bring the two countries to sign an agreement formally ending the Korean war, the situation will be a critical early test of Secretary of State Madeline Albright's skills when she visits Seoul on Friday...
...governors of California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho have declared 70 counties disaster areas. More than 15 people have been killed by the flooding, brought on by a series of storms that have swept through the area since December 26, and exacerbated in some areas by the sudden thaw of accumulated ice and snow. In California alone, 95,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as swollen rivers throughout the state wash out bridges and turn suburban streets into canals. The entire towns of Yuba City and Marysville, located on either side of the Feather River in northern California...