Word: drier
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Scientists predicted, for example, that in western North America the south should be colder and wetter than last winter, while the north would be warmer and drier. That's just what happened: at one point this winter, it was snowing in Guadalajara, Mexico, while thermometers in Saskatchewan registered in the 50s. That doesn't mean the scientists are always right, of course. They can make broad-brush predictions of El Nino's effects without being able to forecast exactly what will happen in any given place. Some of the early prediction scenarios--no snow for the Olympic Winter Games...
...return trip lasted 13 hours and was much drier. "It was nice to be somewhere warm," Tyner, who is from Florida, said...
Last week's rainstorm was highly unusual--if it had been snow, it would have been six feet. And if it had been snow, many of Harvard's buildings would have undoubtedly remained a good deal drier. Along with the drama and excitement of the nor' easter came a much more mundane occurrence: massive flooding. The University needs to take steps to both reimburse students whose property was damaged and to ensure that such leakage does not reoccur in the future...
...which Leakey and Walker have named Australopithecus anamensis (anam is the Turkana word for lake), is yet another reason why paleontologists are reconsidering some of their ideas about why the earliest humans stood up. According to one theory, as a change in climate transformed Africa's moist forests into drier grasslands, evolution favored hom inids that could stand upright in order to spot predators lurking in the tall grasses. Other researchers argue that an upright posture lessened the heat the animals absorbed from the fierce tropical sun. Still others believe bipedalism freed the hands for carrying food or children over...
Buswell immediately demonstrated his precise bow control in the Bartok. He played the opening with rough, fervent strokes but reverted to smooth, effortless attacks in the slower sections of the Allegro apassionato. Meanwhile, Levinson supplied equally sharp attacks while staying within a drier, less flamboyant idiom than Buswell...