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Patterson recalls that he wrote Lewis a letter to complain about what Patterson says were Lewis’ abrupt answers to student questions at a council meeting last year...
...disease have already pummeled world economies, but, at least for the moment, the damage wrought by these threats comes more from their attendant uncertainties than their direct affects. So what might bring about actual instability? The endless winter in the northeast, for instance, may be a signal that an abrupt change in climate lies right around the corner. If so, large parts of the world might face ice age - that's right, ice age - conditions with virtually incalculable consequences for agriculture and travel, much less ordinary commerce...
...this signals the beginning of an abrupt change in climate, instabilities that dwarf the threat of terrorism lie in our future. If these great ocean currents are interrupted, temperatures in the Northeast might drop 10 degrees F (this winter represented a drop of about 2.5 degrees F) in less than a decade. Naturally, one winter does not an ice age make, and maybe our cold winter represents nothing more than a byproduct of regularly recurring cycles such as the North Atlantic Oscillation and El Nino. At the moment we don't know...
...added that the months-long hiatus of debate followed by an abrupt e-mail vote also seemed to circumvent further discussion of the issue among CCL members...
Bernakevitch stormed down the left wing in transition, all the way to the bottom of the faceoff circle, before making an abrupt stop. Unmolested by Dartmouth defensemen Pete Summerfelt and Trevor Byrne, Bernakevitch looped back toward the boards and walked back to where he started before beating Boucher top shelf...