Word: dryer
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...appreciation of how water projects have altered the course of civilization in ways we (perhaps foolishly) call benign. Dams and reservoirs permit unimaginable numbers of people to inhabit forbiddingly arid regions--as well as floodplains where cities would be washed away without upstream protection. Sacramento, Calif., for example, is dryer than North Africa, but the Sacramento River, on whose banks it sits, spread 30 miles (50 km) wide during the wettest California winter on record, in 1862, before dams and levees tamed the river. Dams produce more clean energy than nuclear reactors. Irrigation agriculture, largely dependent on reservoirs, grows...
...burst of energy, snappishness and libido in the first days to fatigue and depression later. The main alternative, a testosterone patch, works best when applied daily to the scrotum, an inconvenient spot, to put it mildly. Some doctors recommend that you warm that little spot with a blow dryer, which...
...member Trevor D. Dryer '00 said he thinks the changes have not hurt student-staff relations...
...transition happened, and I don't have any serious concerns," Dryer said...
...Dryer added that over 100 candidates of various backgrounds--including many Democrats and Republicans--were considered for the position...