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...there on the street, some guy walks by wearing shorts. You pause and rub your eyes. Worried that your blood will freeze if you stand still for too long you head off towards your destination, muttering, "What the hell is he thinking? Is he from the depths of the Yukon, where this kind of weather would be normal for, say, mid-May?" Maybe he just likes being comfortable in overheated sections when everyone else is sweating to death. Or perhaps his parents simply forgot to tell him to bundle up before he went out to play in the snow...
...native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what was to become the skier's total season wins to date on two tablets, like the Ten Commandments...
...come-from-behind win on NAFTA, Clinton's advisers insist, will help prove to voters that the President has the mettle to withstand even tougher fights that loom next year. And they add that the promise of a free-trade zone from the Yukon to the Yucatan makes it easier for Clinton to force trade concessions from Japan and other Asian nations as well as press for a successful completion of the current round of talks on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade by Dec. 15. "A good GATT agreement could create 1.4 million American jobs and boost...
...went in to see the dean of this place and I said, 'I've got a big problem, because my wife isn't interested in the Queen Charlotte Islands or the Yukon, or anywhere where there'd be logging," McArthur says. "[The dean] used to call himself 'we,' and he said, 'We think you should go to Harvard Business School,' which I didn't know about...
Discovered in 1975 by researchers with the Archaeological Survey of Canada, these caves in the remote northern Yukon have yielded flaked stone tools that are 10,000 to 13,000 years old, what appear to be butchered mammoth bones 15,500 to 20,000 years old and bone tools from perhaps 23,500 years ago. To date, however, the researchers have been unable to find any hearths or other cultural features...