Word: cloud
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That's the textbook version at least. In practice, nature often kills hurricanes before they are born. For example, the intermittent warm-water current in the Pacific Ocean known as El Ni¤o generates westerly winds that reach halfway around the globe to disrupt cloud formations that might otherwise form hurricanes. In fact, says Colorado State's Gray, a major reason there have been so few hurricanes in recent years is that El Nino has continued on a more or less nonstop basis...
...Dictionary for Deadheads, describes the fans' playful ardor as "a religion without beliefs." That sounds about right. For most Deadheads, a concert was a church they attended not so much for the gospel as for the communion and community, the hymns and the incense. A giant mushroom cloud of hallucinogenics would lay over the crowd like a fuzzy blanket...
...three days Eric Cornell kept rechecking his computer, not quite willing to believe what his eyes and his instruments were telling him. There on the screen was a dense knot of something that had appeared in a cloud of rubidium atoms. Finally, Cornell had to acknowledge that it could mean only one thing: he and his colleagues had created a new form of matter, predicted by Albert Einstein more than 70 years ago but never before seen on earth. Called a Bose-Einstein condensate, it is a kind of "superatom," in which individual atoms lose their separate identities and merge...
...this a wonderful thing? Familiar pieties collide here, two wisdoms, good news and bad news: 1) Peaceful mobility on a planetary scale proclaims victories for freedom, democratic pluralism, frequent-flyer programs and unfettered competitive markets; 2) A radioactive cloud of banalizing sameness threatens the earth; the sacred and beautiful places, all the uniquenesses, have been invaded, desacralized, franchised for the masses, dissolved into the United Colors of Benetton...
Scaffolding surrounds Wigglesworth and Emerson while Straus is closed for renovations, and Memorial Hall is surrounded by a cloud of dust...