Word: earthly
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...more environmental disaster to the list of potential dire consequences of the greenhouse effect. A general warming of the earth because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere might not only melt the polar ice caps and drastically alter weather patterns but cause more ferocious storms. Writing in Nature, M.I.T. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel warned that a warmer climate could result in hurricanes packing up to 50% more destructive power. This could happen, he suggests, within 40 to 80 years, when some scientists think CO2 levels will have doubled and ocean temperatures will have increased...
...DIFFERENCE is not merely administrative; economically and culturally, Central Square plays Mexico to Harvard Square's United States. The major industry is subway construction, and those who do not labor in the bowels of the earth must chase the total dollars brought in by slumming Harvard Square Yuppies. All this is supervised by the overlords at the Central Square Police Station, an imposing fortress surrounded by an army of black and white cruisers which are used, should the occasion arise, to fill up any empty parking spaces...
...novelist husband Charles (Chamberlain); so is hoydenish Elvira (Danner), his late wife, whom Madame Arcati accidentally materializes; and all three of the Condomines are passionately in love with themselves. Most productions of Coward tend to be as glittery and brittle as spun glass. Murray brings the proceedings down to earth: these are not natural aristocrats but peasants with money and a veneer of polish, and when they mockingly meddle in the supernatural to gather color for one of Charles' books, they bring chaos crashing down upon themselves...
...This is important because we don't know themass of the neutrino, one of the essentialelementary particles. If there were no neutrinos,there would be no sun and no Earth," Glashow said...
...while filming The Killing Fields, in which he had a small role as an American ambassador's aide. However, as his story of the US bombing of Cambodia in April 1975 unfolds, it becomes apparent that Gray's real message is that "an invisible cloud of evils surrounds the earth and lands anywhere...even America...