• Here, the Spruce Brook runs crystal clear into the brown, mineral-infused waters of the Wild River, forming a multitude of pools that are perfect for whiling away a summer day in the mountains.

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  • The list of year-round activities on offer - the Svalbard tourist office has a comprehensive list, as well as a booking facility - includes hiking, glacier walks, kayaking and boat excursions that last a day or ten in summer, or dog-sledding and snowmobiling in winter.

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  • Traffic is picking up: Each of its clinics saw, on average, 20 sick folks a day in October, an increase over 17 patients a day during the summer.

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  • She was driving her motorcycle around town with her husband on a hot summer day in 2008 when they decided to stop for a meal at a local restaurant.

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  • Of course, there's no way Saniewska could have known that the young woman she photographed on a summer day in 2005 would become the international superstar she is today.

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  • My introduction to guns came on a hot summer day in 1963 when my father, 53 sent us all out of the house to have an afternoon of fun at a swimming pool in Aberdeen, Maryland.

    CNN: Roundup: Why we're still debating guns

  • The relay will culminate in a 40-day tour of Scotland in the summer of 2014.

    BBC: Scotland

  • The huts have been described by property agent Martin Lewthwaite as ideal for a family who wanted to sit on the beach and enjoy a summer's day in the picturesque resort.

    BBC: Abersoch beach hut

  • The NUT, in a joint campaign with the Nasuwt, has already announced a series of local strikes in the summer term, followed by a one-day national strike in the autumn.

    BBC: Teachers vow to press on with strike plan

  • "I grew up on about 110 acres in the middle of nowhere and spent mostly every day of the summer in a bathing suit, running around on the grass and having barbecues for dinner, " Ms. Kavanagh said.

    WSJ: Backyard Timeshare on the Lower East Side to Open Aug. 1

  • On a summer's day in June 1982, a helicopter delivered Pope John Paul II to 300, 000 enthusiastic pilgrims waiting at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park.

    BBC: Papal visit: Pilgrim memories and hopes

  • On average Baghdadis receive eight to 12 hours of national electricity a day, which makes life in the summer -- when temperatures easily reach 120 degrees -- almost unbearable.

    CNN: War-scarred Baghdad places little faith in U.S. election

  • Sweeping strings evoke images of a beautiful sunny summer day, laying in the grass by a pond, complete with the chirps of crickets and the sound of wind through the trees.

    NPR: Clare & the Reasons: 'Science Fiction Man'

  • It all started nine months ago on a scorching summer's day in Lithuania, where the Cottagers beat FK Vetra in the third qualifying round, before moving on to west-central Russia for the qualifying play-off second leg against Amkar Perm.

    BBC: From the Cottage to the Continent

  • The typical Bedouin soldier carried no more than a rifle, a hundred rounds of ammunition, forty-five pounds of flour, and a pint of drinking water, which meant that he could travel as much as a hundred and ten miles a day across the desert, even in summer.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • Even before this flow of offal, raw sewage so polluted the shores of Lake Michigan that in the summer of 1854 typhoid and dysentery claimed 60 lives a day in Chicago.

    FORBES: A most unromantic river

  • His appearance to announce 10 dates at the O2 in the summer was a day that some thought would never come.

    BBC: Michael Jackson: Still King of Pop?

  • Disturbed by the treatment of disabled people in institutions across the country in the 1950s and 1960s, Shriver began inviting disabled children to a summer day camp, called Camp Shriver, on her farm in Maryland.

    CNN: Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

  • Adidas advertises its skateboarding shoes only in skate magazines, and in August it introduced the Summer Skate Series in San Francisco, a one-day event staging contests for amateur street skaters.

    FORBES: Later, Skater

  • The money, raised in less than a day and still coming in, will be put toward making a film this summer for an early 2014 release.

    NPR: The Hollywood Reporter's Best Of The Week

  • By 10 a.m. on this summer day, without any orders called in for his execution, Lavender passes the time with a crossword puzzle.

    FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

  • In the fires in Arizona last summer some neighborhoods in northern Arizona had to be evacuated for a day or two and even in that short period of time there was some looting.

    FORBES: Crime in the Wake of Hurricane Irene

  • Come in summer -- for a day walk, week walk or to finish the whole lot (about eight weeks) -- and you might see the benign fin of a basking shark cruise by the shore.

    BBC: Walking Great Britain��s great coast

  • Other soldiers heard about the proxy law, and William and Bridey did three more weddings on a single day in the spring, and three in the summer after they graduated.

    NEWYORKER: The Proxy Marriage

  • "In summer, he spends hours a day working on his hives, marking queens, and going out on 'swarm patrol' with me in response to calls from anywhere within seven miles from Hebden Bridge".

    BBC: Hebden Bridge youngster's buzz from beekeeping

  • Ever the iconoclast, Ms. Philo deconstructed the sugary and shimmery sweetness of her chiffons and silks with a pair of the most ridiculed shoes in fashion, lined with the most counterintuitive fabric for a summer's day: mink.

    WSJ: Flat Out | Fashion Gets Comfy With Flats

  • Her sentencing comes a day after court papers were made public stating that in the summer of 2012, Ms. Huntley wore a hidden wire and recorded conversations with six state senators, a city councilman and two political aides.

    WSJ: Ex-State Senator Huntley Is Sentenced

  • On a hot summer day, I was roaming randomly down Jianguomen Avenue in Beijing.

    FORBES: While Americans Indulge in Over-consumption, Chinese Move Up by Enduring Hardship

  • It was the fourth time since last summer that seven Americans have been killed on a single day in the war.

    NPR: 7 American Service Members Killed In Afghanistan

  • On a hot summer day, as I was roaming randomly down Jianguomen Avenue in Beijing, I found myself drawn to a place called Liang Zi Fitness.

    FORBES: While Americans Indulge In Over-Consumption, Chinese Move Up By Enduring Hardship

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