Word: driers
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...first half manages to produce a few laughs, as when the on-stage oral sex occurs, it is not quite funny enough to adequately entertain. The attempts at humor that occur during the first act do not sufficiently prepare the audience for the less entertaining second half, which is drier and tries harder to make its point after an hour and a half has already been spent producing a farce. One of the characters describes herself as “restless” in her marriage—and “Cloud Nine” manages to achieve...
...diseases - and few scientists know more about the topic than Patz, a member of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Hear Patz talk about global warming and health on this week's Greencast.) As temperatures increase, and hotter, drier summers become the norm in regions that were once temperate, powerful heat waves - like the one in Europe in 2003, which killed an estimated 35,000 people - will take a toll. At the same time, climate models suggest that rain could become less frequent overall but more intense when it does fall, leading...
...reducing the various harms that come from it. But Harvard isn’t in Canada and the Dean won’t soon be playing bartender. But the latest policy changes are hardly the end of fun at Harvard. They also don’t spell a drier campus, or a more dangerous one. If anything, breaking the law ‘round these parts just got a little more exciting...
...check for flooding, according to Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard. The pipe had already been scheduled for a maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout Saturday night moving library holdings to drier ground, according to Brainard. Most affected library materials are currently laid out in areas of Pusey and Houghton libraries, while others are being freeze-dried. Spitzmueller said that most of the materials in Pusey collections would not suffer from water stains because they were covered with protective layers of mats...
...magazine’s long-time claim to fame has been erudite literary nonfiction that ‘breaks ideas,’ as correspondent James Fallows put it in Cambridge. Today, though, the Atlantic seems drier, wonkier, more focused on grabbing readers (and advertisers) by following the stories of the day, and less interested in examining subjects no one else is talking about,” he said...