Word: coasted
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...hurricane to become as powerful as an Andrew or a Floyd, it must encounter several very specific environmental factors, including water temperatures above 80 degrees and a calm upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds...
Koonin noted, however, that the publicity garnered by the U.S. News & World Report survey will probably help Caltech attract applicants and gain more recognition outside of the West Coast...
...over Cayuga Indian claims in the Finger Lakes area. Meanwhile, she has not heard the last from Puerto Rico: its New York allies are asking the First Lady to weigh in on a half-century-long dispute over Navy bombardment of a tiny island off the commonwealth's east coast...
Long before Hollywood dreamed up Waterworld, Laura Roberts grew up in it. Her family owned a stilt house in Miami's Biscayne Bay--one of seven that still remain in "Stiltsville," an eccentric collection of homes standing like flamingoes in the shoals seven miles off the coast. In Al Capone's day, the community doubled as an aquatic red-light district. Bygone booze-and-broads joints like Pierre's Bikini Club are etched in Miami's nefarious past. But today Laura, 35, and her husband Jeff, 36, use her family's stilt house as a weekend retreat, an octopus' garden...
That dream is as much a part of Florida as stone crabs and retirement condos. Which is why this summer even landlubbers are rushing to defend scores of stilt houses across the state, from Biscayne Bay to the Everglades and the Gulf Coast. Environmentalists want the state and federal governments to raze the structures, many of which are on public land, because they regard them as a messy human intrusion on Florida's delicate ecosystem...