Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stations most vulnerable to the loss of federal funding, he points out, are small outlets in rural areas that get a relatively large portion of their money from the CPB. "If they pull out the federal funds," says Carlson, "it will probably cause the small stations to crash and burn ... Public broadcasting in small communities touches the life of every person there. We are going to win this at the grass-roots level." Spoken like a true man of the people...
...sound physiological reasons -- stores the excess away as fat, biology's own energy reserve. It's no accident that fat adds taste to food; evolution reinforces the body's urge to eat the things it needs to survive. In peasant villages, people instinctively gain weight in the summer and burn it off in the winter. Laboratory animals will eat Crisco right...
That leaves no way around a heavy dependence on coal. The best China can hope for, say experts, is to cut coal's portion of the energy mix from 75% to 60% by 2010. The imperative, then, is to find cleaner, more efficient ways to burn the plentiful fossil fuel, reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur compounds and the incompletely combusted particles that form soot...
Harvard's men's basketball team found the latter truth out last night in a heartbreaking 75-68 loss to Holy Cross at Briggs Cage. For three-fourths of the game, the Crimson impressed all with a floor-burn festering defense and a gutsy offense. But in the final ten minutes the Crimson team of old showed up: the Crusaders applied a monstrous press, forced 12 Crimson turnovers and outscored Harvard...
...game that one would love to burn the videotape of, but since it was televised, even an act of pyromania wouldn't do the job right. With the television timeouts to boot, the game gave you the same sensation you get when you pull off a band-aid very slowly...