Word: earths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John Dockery '67 may very well be the only man on earth with a Harvard class ring and a Super Bowl ring. And there's a reason for that, the former sideline broadcaster says--a Harvard degree is not much of an asset in the National Football League...
...What's going on here? Another trio of hurricanes lining up to take a punch at the United States? Sure, it's hurricane season, but why are there so many storms and why is this one so powerful? Is it just coincidence, or has humanity's abuse of the earth ? in the form of global warming ? come back to haunt...
...customary with science, the experts are loath to jump to conclusions until all the data is in and all the causes and effects are connected. Scientists almost universally agree that the earth has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit in this century. Some attribute that to the so-called greenhouse effect, caused by man-made gases that trap the sun's heat on the earth's surface, raising water and air temperatures. Some believe that the warming may be linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages...
...specific environmental factors, including water temperatures above 80 degrees and a calm upper atmosphere. An Atlantic storm begins its life when high cumulus clouds gather over warm waters, often off the west coast of Africa. These clouds become a circular mass of thunderstorms, shaped by the curvature of the earth's atmosphere. These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds and a concentrated area of low pressure that surrounds a spiraling, eerily calm eye. Powerful, counterclockwise...
Things are not looking particularly good for the late great planet Earth. Things are looking very, very bad. Two hundred million demonic horsemen are galloping across the smoky skies, and a third of the world's people will be slain--a third of those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal...