Word: burn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feeling the itch to get back out on the field, Kerr left Duke after that season and spent the next six years playing with the English professional team Millwall, the Dallas Burn and New England Revolution of the MLS and for the last two years with the Bulldogs as a player-coach...
...newborns, whose temperature-regulation systems aren't fully formed. As we age, the brown cells become inactive and the white, which convert dietary fat to body fat, take over. Several research teams have found that by reactivating the brown cells in an adult animal with medication, they can burn off fat dramatically. Now the doctors are looking for a genetic switch that can do the same for humans...
...metaphorical answer to this question is more important than the literal, but the literal is irresistibly short: No, unfortunately not. Humans will have at our disposal as much gasoline as we can burn in the 21st century. Nor are we likely to run out of heating oil, coal or natural gas, the other carbon-based fuels that have powered industrial civilization for 200 years...
...rejoice at having lots of fuel to burn? Let me try to answer that by telling you about my friend Zhenbing...
...Will we run out of gas?"--a question we began asking during the oil shocks of the 1970s--is now the wrong question. The earth's supply of carbon-based fuels will last a long time. But if humans burn anywhere near that much carbon, we'll burn up the planet, or at least our place...