Word: colder
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...cold and lonely Harvard there is perhaps no moment colder and lonelier than the unreciprocated hello. It begins innocently enough, as you catch sight of an acquaintance making their way toward a chance passing with you outside the Science Center or in the Yard. Eagerly, you ready yourself with a friendly “hey,” “what’s up,” or even “yo” to remind them that a bond based solely on awkward pleasantries can withstand the test of time, or at least...
...could also be inadvertently released in a lab accident, as may have happened in Singapore. Dr. Henry L. Niman, a bioengineer at Harvard University, suggests that even now the virus could be spreading undetected through people who carry it without developing symptoms, only to become deadly again during the colder months. (Scientists theorize that SARS cases might spike in the winter, as cold and flu viruses do.) Like a Trojan horse, the revitalized virus could produce a sudden spate of cases, challenging even the best-prepared health-care systems. That's a worst-case scenario, but managing Asia's next...
Islands of urban heat can do funny things with weather. Hot city air, like hot air anywhere else, rises--even more so because of the turbulence caused by tall buildings. When that air is damp enough and collides with colder layers above it, water can condense out as a sudden burst of rain, especially if there are few frontal systems to disrupt the layers, as in summer. In a spot storm above a city or just downwind of it, it's likely that nature alone isn't behind the downpour...
...roommates dismantled the tub, hoping to find time to resurrect it later in the year. But the weather got colder, and the hot tub is still in pieces—one half of it remains on the balcony, the other lies in the common room corner...
...wanted Hendricks long before his senior season started. When Hendricks’ father, retired Army veteran Art Hendricks, first suggested playing for the Academy during Trey’s junior year, his son was reluctant. But after visiting West Point—which was “even colder than Harvard”—and getting to know Roberts, Hendricks was torn...