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2A News Saturday, January 25, 2003 Wausau Daily Herald Snow Queen shows effects of numbing cold of the cab and slammed the door, the police said Donna would slide into the driver's seat and drive off with their trucks, clothes, cash and what little remained of their dignity. From what I remember, when she finally got caught the cops had a confusing time deciding what to charge her with. What I found even more perplexing was how any of these guys, having already demonstrated a near-fatal lack of judgment by jumping round the woods in the altogether, would report the incident But they did! I'll say this: Nobody ever confused me with Einstein but I would have found a way to get some clothes and get home without telling anybody much less the cops how I lost my truck, socks, pants and every ounce of my brains. Furthermore, I think those guys were soooo dumb that they should have been charged with endangering the lives and reputations of anyone they'd ever come in contact with. I think she was just an industrious working girl On the other hand, maybe, just maybe, it was the brain-numbing cold that got those guys.

I mean, real Wisconsin men are smarter than that, don't you think? Now Fm going home. You can find Steve at State of Mind, P.O. Box 121, Prairie du Sac Wl 53578, or e-mail him at StOfMineaol.com. below? How do they feel about cold weather? Do they do anything special?" This didn't strike me as a Pulitzer possibility. Nevertheless, I needed the job and he was the boss.

So I got in the car and drove north. I think I wore every piece of clothing I owned, so that when I emerged from my car on Main Street in Shell Lake at midday, I looked like the unwanted love child of a female Sasquatch and the Pillsbury dough boy. To make a long story short I waddled around town asking people the questions that my editor thought would elicit interesting answers. This did not happen. The Shell Lakers said that when it got really cold they dressed like me, only better, had long ago learned to peacefully coexist with the cold and, as for doing anything special, why, yes, there was that one thing they tended to stay inside and drink a lot more.

"You drove all the way up here from Milwaukee to ask us about cold weather?" a guy on a bar stool asked me, incredulously. "And you're getting paid to do it? I guess it's pretty much like they say nowadays there's some kind of work for damn near everybody." At long last, my tank runneth over. Time to go home and build a fire. But not without concluding the saga of The Snow Queen." Once the bright boys jumped out shivering sweetheart, get some snow and bring it back to our little love truck?" She made this suggestion to a series of different dumb guys in different trucks on different nights. And a number of these amorous clowns, so intoxicated by Donna's romantic ways that they couldn't think straight, hopped out of the cab in their birthday suits and blithely began gathering snow.

And then the real fun began. While Fm reprising the story of Wisconsin's "Snow Queen" to myself, still filling this tank, I recall another wintry episode in my troubled life. This one took place in the winter of 1977, the same year the line from the septic to the cabin froze solid and I had to light 20 pounds of charcoal just to get through the snow to remove the top of the tank and view the problem. I was working for a Milwaukee newspaper at the time. I was new to the job and thus, in the great tradition of newspapering, I drew a lot of truly awful assignments.

In this instance I was told to drive five hours to a place called Shell Lake, which, at that moment, was the coldest spot in a very cold state. "And do what?" I asked the brilliant boss. "Ask them what it's like when it's really cold up there," he replied, somewhat agitated. "You know, what do they do when it's 25 It is 4 degrees Fahrenheit and falling falling fast as I stand here pumping gas into the tank of my truck at 7:30 p.m. I am wearing one of those goofy Chinese army caps with the ear flaps, a down jacket and a pair of ski gloves.

None of it helps. The wind is howl-" ing out of the north and my fingers are frozen to the nozzle and it is so cold that my eyelashes ache. Why am I living on the face of this frozen glacier called Wisconsin? Why would anyone with two thoughts to rub together and a half-tank of gas not flee this godforsaken state and never, ever come back? Until, at least, May. (April, as you well know, is not safe.) "You have to be one pretty stupid adult male to spend winter in America's Tundra," I mutter to myself, a pretty stupid adult male at that Fve heard the case for the beauty and serenity of winter and, sorry, I am unmoved Ice boating? Snowshoeing? Fishing the hard water? Winter camping on Lake Superior? The pursuits of madmen, I say. What could possibly make a guy stay in a place where, as I'm learning at this very moment, gasoline goes in the tank at half the speed of sap oozing down a maple tree? Of course, it suddenly occurs to me, one possible answer to that question would be, "The Snow Queea" For once upon a time she Lottery Iraq: Saddam to get 'B' for Numbers selected Friday: Pick 3: 2, 3, and 2.

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Wausau Daily Herald 1 1 winter. Actually, she made men. several .1 of them, forget win-J I heard about her in Steve Hannah mayue years agu. She was arrested near Wisconsin Rapids and, in effect, charged with making a string of red-blooded Wisconsin guys lose their wits in midwinter not to mention their pants. It's a story that almost makes the idea of winter worthwhile.

(For the record, Fm not going to use her real name. Why embarrass her now? She's probably paid her debt to society and is currently a soccer mom living in Oshkosh. So well call her Donna). Donna frequented taverns in central Wisconsin on cold winter nights and would attach herself to certain, shall we say, susceptible male patrons. After a few drinks, she would invite them to take a ride in their pickup trucks out to a secluded spot where they could park and discuss, say, American foreign policy after 1945.

NOT! Anyway, after a little kissy-face, she would tell these dopes that what really tripped her trigger was rubbing snow all over a guy who was naked in a truck. So, I imagine, she said, "Why don't you just run out there, my ering extending the inspections in an effort to ward off mounting criticism at home and abroad that it is rushing toward war. In Washington, two key lawmakers continued to urge President Bush to resolve the situation diplomatically. Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, warned Friday against a "rush to war in the absence of a strong multilateral coalition." Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle said "we have yet to see any evidence that Saddam still has weapons of mass destruction." A decision by the Bush administration on whether to support extended inspections and put off any military action will be based on whether the inspections are productive and whether Blix and ElBaradei offer new evidence to the council on Monday, said the senior U.S.

official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Like ElBaradei, Blix is expected to praise the access Iraq has accorded inspectors. But he has increasingly criticized Baghdad over the past week for a number of failings, including blocking inspectors from using an American-made U-2 reconnaissance plane. Blix will spend the weekend migration agreement with Mexico before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, have been silent on the issue since then and have focused instead on border security.

Administration officials did not respond to the bishops' letter Thursday, but earlier this week White House spokesman Ari Fleischer repeated the presidents long-standing views on immigration. "The president welcomes immigration to our country," he said. "He thinks it's a sign of how the world still looks to America as the up the talk Savage is ranked fourth in the nation among syndicated talk shows, behind Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and "Dr. Laura," Weaver said. WSAU will continue to broadcast local talk in the morning followed by syndicated programs, including Limbaugh and Hannity, in the afternoon.

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They're not bringing forward original documentation." On Monday, ElBaradei will argue that the inspectors, who returned to Iraq in November after a four-year break, need at least several more months, Gwozdecky said. ElBaradei also will say that the Iraqis "need to help themselves" by pointing the experts in the right direction. ElBaradei, director-general of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, will brief the council on nuclear issues. Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix will brief the council on Iraq's biological, chemical and missile programs.

As the pair finalized their reports to the council, a senior official in Washington told AP that the Bush administration is consid Super With all due respect to those professional football players meeting in San Diego this weekendyou know, the ones who like to dress up and play pirates (Buccaneers, Raiders) there was only one Super Bowl that ever really mattered: The first one, played Jan. 15, 1967. And the winner? Your very own Green Bay Packers. Remember? 1. Super Bowl I was the official name of the very first world championship game.

True or false? 2. Green Bay won that first one, 35-1 0. Who was on the losing end? 3. What city hosted the first Super Bowl game on that famous January day 36 years ago? 4. He was the Packers quarterback as well as the MVP of the big game.

5. How much money did each Green Bay Packer collect for winning Super Bowl 6. This all-night reveler didn't expect much playing time in Super Bowl I. So he snuck out the night before and parted with a lovely blonde lady. To make a scandalous story short, much to his surprise he ended up replacing an injured starter in the big game.

Despite having caught only four passes all season, he hauled in seven that day for 138 yards and two touchdowns. 7. He was the Packers head coach in Super Bowl I and made an encore appearance in Super Bowl II. 8. He appeared in Super Bowl I as a Green Bay Packer tackle and Super Bowl XVI as the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals.

9. Many regard his interception early in the third quarter of Super Bowl I as the turning point of the game. The Pack was clinging to a 14-10 lead when this standout safety intercepted a Len Dawson pass and returned the ball 50 yards to set up a Green Bay touchdown. He is second in Packers history in interceptions (48). 10.

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Inspectors also uncovered some 3,000 pages of documents at the home of an Iraqi scientist, some of which Blix said should have been mentioned in the weapons declaration as well. Blix said tests were still being conducted on some of the warheads. None of the results, however, will be detailed in Blix's report to the council Monday. The inspectors' reports could play a pivotal role in Washington's justification for swift military action. In other developments Friday: Germany started deploying the first of 2,600 soldiers at U.S.

military installations to step up security ahead of possible war a move meant to offset Berlin's opposition to any military actioa About 300 soldiers were in the first wave being sent out to U.S. bases and other complexes, strung across southern and western Germany, the Defense Ministry said. urge change best place for people to move for opportunity and for freedom." But Bush also wants immigration "to be done right," Fleischer said, "and that means that anybody who would come to our country (would) have to, of course, have legitimate documentation." The last time Congress passed a legalization bill was in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Immigration Reform and Control Act. The law granted more than 2 million illegal immigrants legal residency. si Glen jree Market Analysis 11 Leasing, Buying Free Market orSelline Build to Suit 24 vr arc FtperieiHT Commercial Real Lstate Glen Witter i kl mm cnristorrcrson PomtingPrymell Interiorexterior paintinq Drywall installation ana finishing MlAAAf TrPl From Page 1 A more aggressive prosecution of migrant smuggling networks.

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