Chicagoans, please STFU about yesterday’s snowstorm. Try driving in a hilly or mountainous place first. Example 1: Seattle, where steep hills and the occasional rare but icy snowfall do not make for a fun time driving. But their trip home for the holidays nearly turned tragic Friday when two charter buses carrying 80 students slid down a steep ice-covered Seattle street and crashed through a guardrail 20 feet above Interstate 5. The front wheels of one bus ended up dangling over the freeway. “We were all screaming,” said 16-year-old Alex Hammell of Bothell, who was aboard the second bus. “I…
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Ah, Eugene. I loved going to school there, as it was so organic and green, with a population high in altruists and granola eating next-gen hippies. But even in that idyllic little Eden at the southern end of the Willamette Valley, there are suspicious, mean people who think you’re up to no good if you offer to do something nice for them. Like old ladies, mall security types, and cops: EUGENE, Ore. — All they wanted to do was change the world, one random act of kindness at a time. Instead, they were met with furrowed brows, questioned by Eugene…