Word: deeps
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...viruses is an economic evaluation of the effects of a pandemic. In a recent article, Reuters pointed out in 2008 that the IMF said a flu pandemic could cost $3 trillion and cause a 5% drop in global GDP. In other words, it would almost certainly turn the current deep recession into a worldwide depression. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...large asteroid which might hit the Earth in 2036. Apophis, as it is called, is 390 meters wide. If it strikes the planet, it would release more than 100,000 times the energy than that of the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. The asteroid was a big story, but buried deep in the press reports about it was the fact that the odds of a collision are 1 in 5,500 based on current information...
...creepy part has to do with how all people, not just drinkers, rate the attractiveness of minors. Researchers have known for years that adults have a deep appreciation for neoteny, the retention of juvenile features like large eyes and baby-smooth skin in adults. Our fondness for neoteny is both obvious - most people find other people with youthful features to be attractive - and unsettling. Appreciating neotenic features isn't the same as being sexually attracted to children, but at least one study has found that average, college-age heterosexual males and child molesters share remarkably similar (and deeply neotenic) attractions...
...Crimson, Walsh wanted the lefty-lefty matchup against Santomauro, bringing in rookie Will Keuper to face the junior slugger.For a brief second, it looked like the wrong move. Santomauro connected—and hard—on the second pitch of the at-bat, and the ball sailed to deep right center.But with a little help from the wind, the ball nested into the glove of sophomore center fielder Dillon O’Neill with his back against the wall.“It’s a good thing that sign out there says 370 and not 368 because...
Yale: 1. School spirit? Check! Deep-seated inferiority complex? Of course not! Who told you that? BOOLAH-BOOLAH DANNY BOY! 2. Prefrosh. The place your annoying prefrosh roommate can’t stop talking about because she knows she’s going there for sure because the campus is so much prettier than Harvard’s and the people are way smarter and cooler and hotter and she’s too good for Harvard anyway but her parents made her visit…etc. Synonyms. Stanford, Princeton, Brown. Antonyms...