Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean the deal that I really don't care about, but will make me lots of dough if I devote to it countless hours of my limited time here on earth...
...What is very speculative at this point," Emanuel says, "is how the earth's climate will respond." One variable that could offset the rise in CO2 levels, for example, would be a change in cloud cover, which would cut down on the sunlight reaching the surface of the earth. Although it is too early to sound alarms, says Emanuel, his purpose is to make it clear "the consequences of the changes that are occurring are quite severe...
...cemeteries dedicated to Stalin's victims. Some of the camp names that dot the pages of prisoner memoirs are ordinary towns now: Shturmovoy, Elgen, Yagodnoye, Mylga, Magadan itself. "When you go to Magadan and stand upon the Kolyma highway," a Muscovite advised, "you must look down at the earth beneath your feet and think of all the bones buried there...
...bones are there, it is only in the figurative sense. Survivors of the highway construction said the dead could not be buried in the permanently frozen earth and were dumped instead in riverside snowbanks. Their corpses were washed away with the spring runoff and finally came to rest on the gold- rich bed of the Kolyma River...
...writes British Travel Writer Jan Morris in a valentine to New York City in 1945 that might make even Allen blush. Back then, she reports, young men returned from war victorious and well-mannered; the first thing they asked for when they disembarked was milk. Half the earth's races huddled together in picturesque, cheek-by-jowl harmony. The subways, "awful and astonishing in about equal measure," cost only a nickel to ride. Grover Whalen, a flamboyant Irishman with a flower in his lapel, was glad-handing the visiting firemen as the city's official greeter, while saturnine Robert Moses...