Word: bowlful
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...Orleans is and always has been a doomed city. The Corps of Engineers can't stop the inevitable. It is misleading to state that "New Orleans wasn't always a city in a bowl." Levees and loss of wetlands did not cause it to sink - they simply sped up the process. The city sinks by compacting the mud on which it is built. And even if the Mississippi River ran its course unchanged, New Orleans would be buried by sediment. It would sink faster under the weight. We should not rebuild New Orleans in the same location. No city...
...compared with coal-fired and oil-burning plants, hydropower is a relatively clean and inexpensive solution. But dams also have severe, long-term environmental consequences. Vietnam's Mekong Delta, where the river finally meets the sea, is a vast web of waterways that serves as a giant rice bowl, providing the nation with half of its total agricultural output. Yet in part because of the increasing number of dams reducing the flow of the river, salt water from the South China Sea has begun traveling up the Mekong. The influx of brackish water over the past few years has ravaged...
...settle into the sofa, click the remote, and sit back to enjoy an NFL match on one of the major networks. But instead of three hours of gridiron bliss, you get a second-rate 1950s musical. While for American football fans this scenario is, these days, just a Heidi Bowl nightmare, for bullfighting aficionados across Spain it's suddenly a bad dream coming true. This summer, for the first time in its 51-year history, the state-run Spanish Television Corporation (TVE) has not broadcast a single corrida...
...show is touring 70 cities; and, of course, bucks are being made on High School Musical: The Ice Tour. Efron, the star of the movie and of the slightly bigger-budget sequel that debuts on Aug. 17, High School Musical 2--in which he plays a jock with a bowl haircut who just wants to save money for college and sing about it to his mathlete girlfriend--is among the biggest stars tweens have had since they wore bobby socks. Which, at this rate, they'll probably be putting on soon...
...equate money with success: Hey, that guy spent $3 million for a baseball! Bring him in! It's like buying into a poker table. But then it's what you do once you're at the table. Anyway, I could have spent the money on a couple of Super Bowl commercials, but you think anybody would still be asking about them years later...