Word: easterlies
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...fear one another. Alfred Blumstein, who directs the National Consortium on Violence Research, gets asked all the time if crime will keep retreating. He likes to joke that if trends continue, the homicide rate will turn negative in 2007. "Obviously," he adds, "that would have to happen on Easter Sunday...
...kill stomach-sickening salmonella without cooking the eggs or changing their flavor. The final product is even USDA certified. When can you start eating those runny soft-boileds again? The safer eggs, sold under the brand name Davidson's, should be available on the East Coast in time for Easter and rolled out nationwide by year's end. Added cost: about 35[cents] a dozen...
...train might not run anyway, though, because the weather has been simply awful. Due to a bungled forecast, municipalities and airports were caught off guard by the largest snowstorm of the season so far. Many first-years from California have probably never experienced a real Nor'easter before and are finding their flimsy designer hats inadequate. But unlike me, they're probably going home for intersession...
...classic Nor'easter has hit the East Coast hard, dumping exceptionally large amounts of snow and ice from South Carolina to Maine. Raleigh, N.C., saw a record-breaking 20 inches...
...others see an allegory of limited resources (as human bodies multiplied on the island, and resources did not, people were reduced to eating one another, and after infections and slavery raids further reduced numbers, the population, in the late 19th century, sank to 110). In Paul Theroux's formulation, "Easter Island is smaller than Martha's Vineyard, and probably has fewer stony faces...