Word: disasterous
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A "flickering climate" (as it was dubbed by Taylor and his colleagues) would be a biblical disaster in today's crowded world. Droughts, heat waves, floods and plagues of pests would play havoc with crops, and rapid sea-level rise would inundate cities and destroy rich agricultural lands. "The Greenland...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Three commercial pilots who reported seeing at least one missile in the air while flying over the same New York airspace where TWA Flight 800 exploded have the FAA on rumor control all over again. Pilots of Northwest, Delta, and USAirways flights heading westward over New York City...
MOVIES . . . PARADISE ROAD: Singapore, 1942. As the Japanese advance, the colonial swells party on, unconcerned. They don't know that disaster looms. But we do; this is the same familiar war-movie territory we've seen in countless other films. "We also know that we are in for a very...
The last piece brought Williams back to the podium and Galway back to center stage as the soloist. This performance of John Corigliano's Pied Piper Fantasy was extremely theatrical. The piece began in the dark, with the hall gradually growing light when Galway as the Pied Piper entered from...
But when the fighting started and the fog of war rolled in, Oaks' private computer network proved as difficult to reach as the real America Online. Early in the action, his first humvee was taken out by an armored personnel carrier hiding behind a ridge. (The direct hit was indicated...