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...to—ineptitude in dealing with the opposite sex. One New York Times critic worries that since “the hormones have started to kick in at Hogwarts, the fear is that it will gross out the grammar-school readership, if it doesn’t just bore the kids silly...
...exposed buried fossils but also drove away the people of Herto and their livestock, which would have trampled the fragile bones. When White and the others happened to drive by the village, they noticed a fossil hippo skull poking out of the ancient sand. On closer examination, the skull bore marks indicating that the animal had been gashed with a stone tool. Clearly, human ancestors had once lived there...
...estimate that using tidal stream generators we could meet all of the renewable energy needs of the U.K." The Severn Estuary was chosen to test the new technology because it has the world's highest range between high and low tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn Bore, at the times of the spring and autumn equinoxes, tides of up to 15.4 m rush at 24 km/h up the funnel-shaped channel. But Ayre stresses that huge tidal flows are not essential to the system. "We will tailor the units to be site specific," he explains, "So that...
Students from the graduate schools bore symbols of their educational affiliation as they processed around the Yard to their seats in Tercentenary Theatre before the ceremony began...
Students from the graduate schools bore symbols of their educational affiliation as they processed around the Yard to their seats in Tercentenary Theatre before the ceremony began...