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Fairbanks, Alaska is an unassuming sort of place: the architecture is generally plain and the winter weather makes thermal underwear a blessing. Tourists use Fairbanks as a gateway to the subarctic wilderness, but a dramatic addition to the skyline is slowing down newcomers on their way through. It's the striking Museum of the North...
...summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire's White Mountains. It isn't the tallest peak in the country. In fact, at just 6,288 ft., it isn't even the tallest in the eastern U.S. (Mount Mitchell in North Carolina beats it by several hundred feet). But the weather here is some of the worst in the world. Storms blow up without warning. Every so often a hiker caught unawares by plunging temperatures, fierce winds and snow squalls dies of hypothermia...
...they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with three talks on that most current of topics. On other trips, you might...
...inclement weather, the men’s and women’s squash teams both did not play their originally scheduled match against Yale yesterday, to be rescheduled for next Wednesday, February...
...tickets were also disappointed. By 10 p.m., 600 tickets had been sold for the event, which had a capacity for 400, according to David S. Jewett ’08, treasurer for Winthrop House Committee (HoCo) and an organizer of the event. Despite the 11 degree Fahrenheit weather forecast, as expected, the scantily dressed were in abundance. “There was a girl just wearing a bra,” says Jewett calmly the next morning. Adds Michael J. Mure ’09, social chair of Winthrop HoCo, “A guy was walking around...