Word: cools
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Krakatoa's Activity. Even a single major volcanic outburst adds so much dust to the atmosphere that it reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface; the result can be a brief but noticeable cooling of global climate. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, for instance, unusually cool weather was reported in many parts of the world for several years. The evidence is still preserved in the annual growth rings of old trees. Only recently, scientists at the University of Arizona's tree-ring laboratory discovered disturbed rings in California trees, dating back...
This mingling of passion and cool detachment completely infuses both Oki's love for Otoko, and its later reverberations...
This was Lowell Lee overrun by a backlash mob: Emerson Hall seized and reversed. Professors who think they are boring get a rush from mentioning something about New Haven and feeling the cool Harvard his from the audience. But here it was no giggling serpent noise but a monstrous barrage of "Fuck You!" One announcer never got near the mike without a voice yelling "Shut up you fuckin' preppie!" The announcer went to public school and the shouting beero was a preppie...
Saxon describes himself as "somewhat reserved." He will need to cast off some of that academic cool, however, to deal with newly elected Governor Jerry Brown, who has proposed an almost Reagan-like budget for U.C. Brown says he wants no new building and has slashed the regents' construction requests from $114 million to $17 million -barely enough to finish projects already started. Saxon will not be terribly controversial. "Dave is a great guy," says one U.C. dean, "but he's not going to rattle the university establishment. He is the university establishment...
...notions of security. There is a wave of anger at his impudence, a chant of "get but of the line." Sam almost acquiesces, but someone in the line has an attack of "waitline sickness" and starts screaming an immediate threat to the crowd, for the sickness is contagious. Some cool head replaces the chant with a lullaby, gradually calming the screamer. And when it is quiet, the silence is too tense for anyone to resume hostilities against...