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...those involved in managing the projects admit that there were times when they feared the projects were fatally delayed, because of snow, rusted window supports or missing support walls. The answer was usually, according to Buckley, to add more workers rather than pushing back the deadline...
TITLE: SMILLA'S SENSE OF SNOW...
...freezing -- an extraordinary 0 degrees Fahrenheit -- and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik -- big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost. December darkness rises up from the grave...
That's the antiestablishment view of Hoeg's heroine, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her mother, a hunter and tracker, and the comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been...
...years by the Central Utah Project. But Denver's hydrological future is far less certain. Because the Rockies impede rainfall, the city enjoys 300 days of sunshine a year. The weather, though, comes at a price. Ever since the early 1900s, elaborate water projects have sought to capture snow melts, pumping water across the mountains from the moist west to the dry east. That engineering worked satisfactorily until 1990, when the Environmental Protection Agency outlawed the building of the giant Two Forks dam in order to protect a trout-rich river system. As a result, Denver is now judged...