Word: coldness
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...July 2008, after she was detained by local police near one of the city's mosques on suspicion that she was a suicide bomber. At the time of her arrest, she allegedly had with her a flash drive with references to specific "cells" and "enemies" and various chemicals in cold-cream jars, including a quantity of sodium cyanide. Prosecutors say that the following day, as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents prepared to question her at a nearby police station, Siddiqui grabbed an unsecured M-4 automatic rifle from one of the soldiers and opened fire...
...says lead author Anna Kuparinen, of the University of Helsinki, pine and birch trees in the northernmost parts of Europe are stunted, in part because they have less time to grow each year than their more southerly counterparts. They've also evolved mechanisms that protect them from the harshest cold. "They actually stop growing before the frost comes," says Kuparinen...
...came to his senses on that cold Tuesday evening in his New Jersey home, Arbuthnott begrudgingly tuned in to CNN. Moments later, he snapped into rapt attention...
...There is no clean water, which is a major public health hazard,” Marx said. “It’s been cold. They don’t have blankets...
Watching CNN on that cold night was frustrating, Arbuthnott said, because there were no visuals, no pictures to help him envision the destruction in discussion on television. He recalled the shanty cement homes built on hillsides—and he feared the worst...