Word: cloude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John A. Cloud '93, despite his conservationist rhetoric, routinely drives with underinflated tires and dirty air filters...
...weighed around 35 lbs., came down with an occasional cold or ear infection, and appeared to be a healthy four-year-old. But a dark cloud hung . over her future. She suffered from ADA deficiency, the rare, incurable and deadly genetic disease that shuts down the immune system -- a disorder similar to the one that in 1984 finally claimed the life of David, the famous but unfortunate "bubble boy." Only the weekly injection of a newly developed drug seemed to stand between the little girl and the same fate...
...their eyes traverse the pavements, inevitably they light upon the homeless--many of them plagued with alcohol problems or by mental illness--and suddenly the formless cloud of anger that hovers over the square takes on a definite shape...
...radar and its volunteer spotter network. "We feel there should have been some warning," said Will County Executive Charles Adelman with grim understatement. Explained NWS's Chicago meteorologist Paul Dailey: "The radar did not indicate any kind of rotation, hook or comma- shaped signal on the edge of the cloud. All we needed was one person to call us, but we didn't get a single report." The Weather Service's Washington supervisors were sending a team to find out why the killer storm's stealthy approach had not been detected...
Well, O.K., maybe not. Have a beer, sit down in the gray sandstone grit, but do not attempt to reopen the great debate over whether the dinosaurs were wiped out at the end of the Cretaceous period by a huge comet or a vast cloud of volcanic dust or any of 80-odd other proposed killers, all of which Horner spurns. He has a rubber stamp that says, WHO GIVES A S--- WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? Horner cares about how they lived...