Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calm of the storm has hit the Harvard water polo team and hopefully the winning waves are here to stay. No storms are in site--at least...
...Ottoman Turks built a fortress to loom over Erbil, a city already old when they conquered it and still making history now that the Sultans of Constantinople are no more. From that citadel, Erbil last week appeared remarkably calm for a city just beset by Iraq. Banks were open, shops were doing brisk business and, except for several parliament buildings and the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.), the city bore almost no indications of fighting. What little evidence there was, however, spoke volumes. A bust of Jalal Talabani, the P.U.K. leader, was beheaded at a road junction...
Despite the calm in Erbil, few believed the crisis had passed. On Thursday morning in Degala, 15 miles beyond the Iraqi encampment southeast of Erbil, K.D.P. and P.U.K. peshmerga [those who face death] battled for control of a critical bridge. On Friday both sides were still shelling each other. Yet these battles produced few casualties and even fewer refugees. In fact the biggest headache for Erbil's nearly half a million residents was that almost all water had been cut off by the P.U.K., which controls the dam outside of town. The streets were choked with water trucks, while...
What's most surprising, observes Joe Gurman, a space physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is that all this is occurring despite the fact that we're currently in a solar minimum--the interval of relative calm that reigns between the end of one 11-year sunspot cycle and the beginning of another. Sunspots always signal more violent solar activity than average. But, says Gurman: "We now know that there's no such thing as a quiet...
...members around who knew the new computer system. So the school found Fielder, an area whiz who has tinkered with technology since age nine. With a password and a prayer, he created the necessary templates and streamlined the program for next year. Says Fielder: "It was hard to stay calm under the pressure, but there's a solution to every problem...