Word: tundras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson players raced onto the tundra in delirious joy. One could see several packs of players hugging each other because they had accomplished what they set out to do from day one--to win the Ivy League title, which they had come so close to doing the year before...
...amidst the frozen tundra of Chase Field, the Big Green snow-balled the Crimson by a 2-0 count to deny Harvard (5-12, 1-5 Ivy) a chance at winning its last game of the season...
...discovery of a supposedly frostbitten Loretta Young in the film "Call of the Wild." Mizrahi sets (and Keeve clips) the moment at which he discovered his new season's look: she's wrapped in fur; her make-up is "dewy," lip gloss fresh. "If you must freeze on the tundra." Mizrahi deadpans, "this...
...photo of the unmarked wooden crosses in the northern tundra reminded me of my youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father...
...continues to be wounded today. "Let's say you decide to get away from it all in Siberia," says Alexei Yablokov, Russia's leading environmentalist and once President Boris Yeltsin's top adviser on ecology. "You travel up the Yenisey River toward the Arctic. You look across the empty tundra and think you are alone in nature, miles upon miles from the nearest person, and you decide to stretch out on the riverbank. Unfortunately, you are lying in sands contaminated by plutonium from three upstream nuclear reactors whose radioactive wastes have been carelessly dumped for over 40 years...