Word: abruptness
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Global warming moved another notch up the worry scale last week when the National Academy of Sciences reported that human pollution might not just be causing a gradual rise in the earth's temperature but could also lead to "large, abrupt, and unwelcome" climate change. So it was a particularly good week for DaimlerChrysler to introduce a new fuel-efficient minivan called the Natrium. It runs on a common compound called sodium borohydride. A chemical reaction inside the engine produces hydrogen to power the car's fuel cell, leaving behind not carbon dioxide (the primary culprit in global warming...
...black vests and bin Laden T shirts, their heads covered by black balaclavas, race in and out of the grimy front room of the Laskar headquarters repeatedly shouting "Assalamu' alaikum" (may peace be with you) as they wield machetes, 30-cm daggers and loaded shotguns. Their antics draw an abrupt, approving laugh from Ichsan. Obviously the boys' role model, the stocky 32-year-old is clad entirely in black, down to the socks he wears under his army-issue combat boots. He says he has just returned from what he calls a "clash" in Tabula near Tangula's village...
...list in R&B dance music producers, she should at least expect to be given beats worthy of club play. Unfortunately, she explores few interesting rhythms. There is no truly captivating “Get Ur Freak On” here, but a sequence of abrupt beats that can shift suddenly and inexplicably multiple times in one song. Seekers of innovative dance music would best stick with far more effective recent material by Daft Punk or Sarina Paris, or even ‘N Sync...
...with the one-two punch that looks to have finished Enron off. That would be the downgrade Wednesday morning of Enron?s corporate debt to "junk" status - a bit of paperwork that instantly adds something like $10 billion in debt to Enron?s towering stack of bills - and the abrupt termination by Dynegy of the planned rescue...
...shooting "objects put together bald, like a visual list," Joshi's novel reads more like a photomontage than a narrative. He jump-shifts between the voice of an unidentified narrator and Bhatt; another account comes from diary entries of a young woman smitten with the photographer. These abrupt cuts require careful attention. They also add to Joshi's deeper theme of the complexity of connections in life: particularly, where the relationship between nation and family begins and ends...