Word: aspects
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...scientists study El Niño, they are finding that it is really a much broader disturbance of ocean currents and winds that ranges far across the Pacific and even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high...
...only force of the report's findings will come in their contribution to the debate that already swirls around almost every aspect of this subject. The one issue involved on which there is a semblance of agreement is the definition of death. Traditionally, a person had been considered medically and legally dead when his heart and lungs stopped. Today, however, machines can prolong these visible signs of life even after the brain has ceased to function. The standards for determining "brain death," set forth by a 1968 Harvard Medical School report on irreversible coma, are now widely accepted among...
...endearing aspect of Brighton Beach Memoirs is that the mask has slipped a little. Without slighting his potent comic gifts, Simon looks back, not in anger, remorse or undue guilt but with fondly nourished compassion, at himself as an adolescent in 1937 and at the almost asphyxiatingly close-knit family around him. While the play housed at Broadway's Alvin Theater does not fully attain the playwright's highest aims, it does give off compelling glints of an urban Morning's at Seven, a ghetto Our Town and a wryly caustic Ah, Wilderness! Like them, Brighton Beach...
Apathy about baseball, however, is not the only issue at hand here. Particularly at Harvard, many people convey a feeling of distaste, even of hostility, when discussing baseball. To me, it seems like it's in vogue to criticize baseball--an institution which has been a dominant cultural aspect of American society for 114 years--as a means of displaying one's non-conformity and individuality...
Boone said that the most rewarding aspect of his company's success is that he no longer has to worry about finding a job after graduation. "The biggest relief is that I've never had to have a resume," he added...