Word: affectedness
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Until recently, most weather scientists paid scant attention to the periodic episodes of warm water that for countless centuries have appeared off the coast of Peru. They seemed to be a local event, one that affected mainly fish--in particular, Peru's lucrative anchovy fishery--and seabirds. Not until the...
Coastal Peru is hardly the only area affected. El Nino alters winds and currents throughout the tropics, producing what climatologist Nicholas Graham of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls "a weird kind of sloshing." As the trade winds slacken, he explains, they give rise to slow-moving waves that surge...
Because he Harvard Coop, where most students purchase their books, is now affiliated with Barnes and Noble, officials said they don't expect book shipments to be severely affected. Barnes and Noble has its own trucking company in New Jersey that will deliver books to the Coop.
--Dr. William H. Philpott, author of the Biomagnetic Handbook, claims that all injuries generate positive magnetic fields and that administering a negative magnetic field to the affected site will relieve pain and speed healing.
It is a disgrace that dogs are killed for the hideous crimes of their owners. It is the owner who needs punishment. There is no dog in this world, unless it has been abused or trained to hate humans, that cannot become a loving creature. Rottweilers and pit bulls, for...