Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homesteaded in the Wrangell Mountains, and started to raise and train sled dogs. She and her husband David L. Monson now own a kennel of 150 dogs in their Alaskan home. They live in a log cabin, 12 x 16 feet, without running water. Butcher melts ice in the winter, draws water from a nearby stream in the summer, and generates a limited supply of electricity. The closest neighbor is more than six miles away, mail is 25 miles away, and Fairbanks--the nearest town--145 miles southeast...
...propos of the Philippines: they are mentioned as a "Case of Highest Concern" in the article "Dead Dictators and Rioting Mobs," published by Huntington and Richard K. Betts in Winter 1985-1986, before Marcos was out. In this article, the authors include numerous tables, entitled for instance: "Calorie Consumption as Percentage of Daily Requirement and Instability First Year After Death [of Dictator]"; "Urban Population and Instability First Year After Death"; "Literacy and Instability First Year After Death"; "Annual Growth GPD Per Capita and Instability First Year After Death"; with percentages, numbers, and items like "Extensive," "Moderate," "Limited," "None," "Total...
Poor children are thinner than middle-class youngsters, although the poor are quickly narrowing the weight gap. Children and teen-agers also tend to be fatter in the winter than in the warmer months...
...view from the air in winter evokes an old prisoner song: "Kolyma, , wonderful planet/ Twelve months winter, the rest summer." While that may not be literally true, the brief subarctic summer can be worse than the winter. When it arrives in July, thawed swamps release swarms of hungry arctic mosquitoes and tiny black biting flies that together make life miserable...
...year," said Oleg Kievsky, 50, an engineer at the Bilibino nuclear power station, the most northerly power reactor in the world. "The frosts of August kill the mosquitoes, but the weather is still beautiful. Everybody goes out camping, and we spend our days picking berries or mushrooms for the winter...