Word: dryer
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...Tide bottle before arriving here in Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack of conscientiousness in laundry rooms across campus. From Thayer to Quincy, Lowell to Cabot, this immaturity is rife at Harvard, and doesn’t seem to end until graduation (if at all). Washers and dryers are in high demand at peak hours, like Sunday afternoon and Thursday night. Students, overwhelmed by pressing commitments, naturally want to load and leave as quickly as possible. So, with all machines “in use,” it’s tempting to drag others’ clothes...
...been known to throw one shirt in the dryer to unwrinkle it. And honestly, at home, when do I ever turn off my computer? Admittedly, energy-saving abroad is usually more an issue of affordability than it is of environmental awareness, but in America, where environmental awareness does exist, we have a responsibility to conserve. Individuals should save energy however they can and the government must do its part on a global, legislative level...
...winds begin cold, gathering power and mass in the high desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Air pressure pushes the winds up and over the San Gabriel Mountains, westward toward the Pacific Ocean, until gravity takes hold. The air becomes compressed as it drops, growing hotter and dryer, stripping moisture from the ground, accelerating - sometimes past 100 m.p.h. (160 km/h) - as it squeezes through Southern California's many canyons...
...What's more, there is not likely to be much relief from drought conditions. The National Weather Service predicts a La Niña pattern this winter, which occurs when sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are cooler than usual. La Niña usually translates to dryer and hotter weather in the American South...
...long-term forecast isn't any better. Few scientists expect dry areas like the Southwest to do anything but grow dryer still. The past several years have been among the dryest on record in the West, leaving the Colorado River - which supplies water to 30 million people - at its lowest level in 85 years of measurements. If the mountain snowpack that stores much of the water used by the West were to melt because of higher temperatures, all the reservoirs in the world might not be enough to keep the region wet. Even if the effects of climate change turn...