Gliding to school.

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The large, red aluminum contraption resembles a houseboat on skis. But for residents of La Pointe, Wis., this strange vehicle, known as a windsled, is their school, bus. La Pointe (population 250) is a village on Madeline Island, just off the tip of mainland Wisconsin. Most of the year, a ferry carries La Pointe's students across Lake Superior to school, in Bayfield, Wis. But when the lake freezes in the winter, they glide to school, in the windsled. The 9,000-pound...