Word: belled
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Activism is a cyclical campus temperament, and we in 1998 are definitely in a nadir of complacency. During our first year here, outraged by the implications of The Bell Curve, the BSA rallied on the steps of Widener and was joined by other organizations in its efforts. In our sophomore year, the Asian American Association, RAZA and other organizations rallied against proposed cuts in legal immigration and in immigrants' access to social programs...
...students critically engage University policies or oppressive legislation, poster the campus until their arms hurt and work to capture the hearts and minds of the Harvard community--yes, even faculty and administrators--by clearly articulating the philosophical bases of their positions, whether it be the dangerous racism of The Bell Curve or the central administration's unjustified efforts at restricting PBHA's autonomy...
...then there's the North Atlantic oscillation, which makes El Nino's effect on the eastern U.S. as unpredictable as its influence over Brazil. This climate system, says Gerry Bell of the Climate Prediction Center, changes the position of the jet stream over the ocean. Until recently, the North Atlantic oscillation, which strongly influences Europe's weather as well, was considered to be primarily a manifestation of the atmosphere. But researcher Michael McCartney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution thinks it too is heavily influenced by the sea--in this case by an ocean gyre, a surface current that follows...
...everywhere the 7,000-ft. mountains and the apple and peach and apricot orchards give a bell-like vigor to the air. Nagano is actually on almost the same latitude as Rome and San Francisco--the southernmost city ever to be host of a Winter Games--but its nearby mountains are famous for their clear, rushing streams and sharp blue skies. "This is the most beautiful place in Japan," says an American professor at a local university. "I'll be happy if I never see Tokyo in my life again...
...What did he ever do for them?" Hobart said. "Does the word triangulation ring a bell...