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We can't help ourselves. We know as soon as we walk through the front door of the store that there's one item we'll definitely wind up buying. Maybe it's as unglam as the Kirkland diapers by the 200 pack at Costco or an extravagant eyebrow pencil from Neiman Marcus.
The notion is that every store has a certain something that will make its way into our shopping carts. I'm so devoted to this concept of the uniquely irresistible that I write a column every week in the Tribune Sunday Magazine called "Just One Thing."
But my thing is ... mine. What's yours? Here's a list of the single things that friends and co-workers always buy at certain stores. How about you? Tell us your Just One Things and the stores where you buy them in an e-mail to atplay@tribune.com, with "ONE THING" in the subject line
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Taking our measure
Even with that isolation though, finding solitude and quiet here can be hard. With the shared facilities and constant hum of heavy machinery and construction vehicles, it’s difficult to imagine the South Pole as Scott and Amundsen would have known it. Perhaps the only way to get even a glimpse of that Pole is to go out for a long walk. Luckily, I’ve made plans to get a tour of the Atmospheric Research Observatory (ARO), one of the main scientific facilities here a short distance from the station. I look up at the television monitors, which tell me that it’s -24 °C outside, with a wind chill of -62 °C. Better get my gear. Getting dressed to go outside here involves more layers than a James Joyce novel. First comes the polypropylene long underwear.
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