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The light is now coming up in Cambridge, and by my calculations that means the sun is just going down in Mauritania. I wonder if she is thinking about home. It must seem very far away. I wonder if it seems strange to her as she lies in her mud...
The girl shakes her head. "Listen, Jerry, can you take care of mine? I'm cleaned out," she asks. Jerry can: he goes back and settles with the counterman. The girl puts four quarters in the cigarette machine, puts the pack into her purse, and the two of them leave...
Yet when excitement settles into a familiar routine, even the most thrilling assignment becomes just a job. The White House beat, for all its glories, is often repetitive and tedious, the equivalent of covering a fenced-off headquarters in a company town. Says Woodruff: "Access is very tightly controlled; inevitably...
Brian Toon of NASA's Ames center says the cloud could reduce temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by a degree or so next summer-enough to affect growing seasons and rainfall. Others say the effect will be too negligible, only a few tenths of a degree. Scientists will have...
"I'm certainly no expert on fables," Barks says, but his sagas of feathered heroes traveling the world, from Duckburg to outer space, all for the purpose of shoring up wealth, are each laced with a little lesson. In Tralla La, Scrooge suffers a nervous breakdown and, with Donald...