Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visualize how the ENSO cycle works, think of the Pacific Ocean as a big bathtub, with a fan stirring up air representing the trade winds. In the ENSO cycle's neutral or cold phase, these winds blow from east to west, pushing water away from the South American coast, so that the ocean's surface is a couple of feet lower off Peru than it is off Indonesia. The difference, although seemingly small, has important consequences: to replace the water that the winds have swept away, cold, nutrient-rich water from the depths wells up, and so Peru's waters...
...bombers killed 13 and wounded 170 in the attack, which was claimed by the radical Islamist group Hamas. The bloodshed scotched the latest attempts at reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians and set back U.S. plans to reinvigorate the comatose peace process. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has suffered yet another blow to his fragile authority, cornered dangerously between militant Islamists and enraged Israelis. Also in political trouble within his ruling coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now probably faces more pressure to move further to the right...
...local hospital--were identified as Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, both Palestinians carrying Jordanian passports. Did the two have links to the militant Islamic movement? Amid the squalor of their apartment were reportedly a picture of the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and a note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel had falsely accused...
This alacrity in giving gratuitous advice is, first, obscene. People living fat and safe thousands of miles away have no standing to tell the Israelis that they must, regardless, continue a process that relentlessly increases the power and the reach of people trying to blow them...
...American pullout would be a major setback for the Russian space agency, which earns nearly $100 million a year selling rides aboard Mir to the U.S., as well as a blow to the Kremlin's prestige. So far, though, NASA has no such plan. And for the moment, the Russians have more immediate concerns. Last month's crash poked a hole in the station's Spektr module, forcing the crew to disconnect power cables so they could isolate the now airless Spektr from the rest...