Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similarities still outweigh the differences. The two have many of the same goals in life, and here at Harvard both played on the men's varsity basketball team during the winter. They competed at the same games in childhood and always dressed alike--although not by choice...
Pananen and Thompson both hail from America's largest and least settled state--Alaska--where it is dark for as many as 20 hours a day in the winter and where temperatures drop as low as 60 degrees below zero. Pananen and Thompson are not alone at Harvard. They are two of the 13 Alaskans currently enrolled at the College. Migrating from towns such as North Pole and Copper Center, these students travel nearly 4000 miles to come to school. None of the 13 agrees exactly what it means to be an Alaskan at Harvard, but most are in accord...
...persuaded the Federal Government that taking the endangered birds into protective custody was the best way to save them. Some conservationists bitterly opposed the capture of the last condors, arguing that pressure to preserve what was left of their habitat would vanish without a resident population. During the winter of 1985, nearly half of the 15 remaining wild birds perished, victims of lead shot, varmint poisons and land development. Two years later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rounded up the last of the survivors...
Back and forth. Dreaming of winter in spring...
...orchestra became Rachlevsky's consuming passion. He gave up his job at the Detroit Symphony in 1984 to create a full-time chamber-music society. And he spent 20-hour days dunning corporate chiefs for money, cooking borsch for winter concertgoers, and arranging for a towing service to be on call for orchestra patrons whose cars failed to start on concert evenings...