Word: winterizing
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...Dean is winning on both counts. His opposition to the war is looking less radical every day. His style-his imprudence, his plain talk-just doesn't sound like the other guys. At the Dems' winter meeting in Washington, he arrived at the podium and, instead of lapsing into the usual thank-you blather, blasted off like a rocket-propelled grenade: "What I want to know is why so many Democrats in Washington aren't standing up against Bush's unilateral war in Iraq." This was followed by several more withering "What I want to knows" and then the introduction...
Struggling with faith becomes one of the major themes of "Blankets." As he nears the end of high school, Craig's pastor urges him to try the ministry. Craig has his doubts. These are fired in the crucible of a Christian winter camp that he attends every Christmas. Artistic rather than athletic and unable to pay the skiing fees anyway, he feels outcast by the uniform and exclusionary Christian community there. More importantly, during his junior year at the camp, he meets Raina, a pretty, thoughtful and similarly alienated girl. All at once, along with everything else, the book becomes...
...countries are probably now going to be SARS-free within the next two to three weeks." DAVID HEYMANN, director of the World Health Organization's communicable-diseases division, adding that there's a possibility SARS will resurface in China next winter...
...hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights for two weeks or longer, with no flights at all during the evil winter...
...Khodorkovsky; with fraud; in Moscow. Authorities are investigating Lebedev for the privatization of a fertilizer plant in 1994. The day after Lebedev's arrest, Khodorkovsky, chairman of oil giant Yukos, was questioned by state prosecutors. Khodorkovsky has angered the Kremlin with his plans to fund opposition parties in this winter's parliamentary elections...