Word: cumulus
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...models still aren't perfect. One major flaw, agree critics and champions alike, is that they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
...sneaker since then has gone through changes. It has specialized, subdividing into varieties for walking, tennis, basketball, running and something called "cross-training." The sneaker industry has ingested steroids and hallucinogens, and produced astonishing effects, shoes that look like cumulus clouds, or reptiles of the Amazon basin, or tarted-up space stations. Shoes have Incredible Hulked themselves (or perhaps, Robert Crumbed themselves) to assert an out-of-perspective importance - rendering the foot (an absurd appendage anyway and best underplayed) ridiculously prominent, strange shapes elaborated by irrational patchworks of neon piping and gaudy metallic iridescences...
...rain-bearing clouds and extremely high winds. In order for a 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...
...once, and it crashed") and instead writes his ideas down in red pen on yellow legal pads. ("I've got notepads from when I was in fifth grade.") Lately he's taken to calling up his answering machine and leaving messages for himself. His comic ideas begin as cumulus clouds of general observation before coalescing into the thunder and lightning of his stand-up. "I had something the other day--this thing about men, that no matter what they're doing at their job, if some beautiful woman walks by, you try to do it cool," says Rock...
...cloning because their egg cells are particularly delicate and their embryos develop so rapidly. He squeezed in the cloning work during his free time, carefully manipulating one type of mouse cell after another until, just months after Dolly was unleashed on the world, he succeeded in cloning the cumulus cells that surround the egg in the ovary. Wakayama's whimsical name for his new creation: Cumulina...