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This time of year, Yellowstone is a land of dramatic fire-and-ice contrasts, with hissing, boiling water heated in chambers far below shooting out clouds of steam over a subzero, snowy alpine landscape, where bison and elk find warm patches of open ground to browse. We who live here, it has been said, do so at the mercy of geology. In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous coexistence with the earth's fickle tectonic temperaments...
...This comes at a time of increased ferment, with Malaysia's ethnic-based power-sharing in flux and Indian lawyers having braved water cannons to protest discrimination. While hardly political, the Temple has tackled gangs, drug use and crime born of low self-esteem, one young person - and one tabla beat - at a time. Hundreds crowd the classes, which are still held in the old building day and night. The new space will be welcome...
Since 1903, the Coney Island Polar Bear Club has staged a New Year's Day plunge into the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. This year, nearly 700 men, women and children are expected to enjoy a chilly dip with as many as 3,000 less courageous souls watching from the shore. (The club's more dedicated members meet each Sunday during the winter to enjoy a cold swim.) TIME spoke with the club's president, Dennis Thomas, about how the group got its start, the psychology behind cold-water swimming and why 65° weather in January sucks...
...that's so different and so distinct from what we normally do in our everyday lives that it's a very cathartic and cleansing experience. We all have stress, we know that - job, relationships, pressures; everyone's got that. And I guarantee you that once you're in that water, all that stuff disappears. You cannot think or worry about anything...
...have to love the water. I think everyone finds something for themselves there. We're all very different people, from very different backgrounds - we have a couple lawyers who do it, a former police detective, I'm a graphic designer - it really runs this whole gamut of people. We're going to have some people from Sweden, I believe, out there tomorrow who are winter competitive swimmers, and we were contacted by the Chinese Winter Swimming Association, so we may do a Chinese New Year's event with them...