Word: flatted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...charcoal and the wind quickened. One man burst through a door announcing that a tornado had been reported nearby. "Whatever," another man said dismissively, holding a Corona, before adding, "We can't get tornadoes here." Not so. Major cities with skyscrapers aren't less vulnerable to tornadoes than rural, flat areas. Consider the tornadoes that swept through downtown Atlanta and parts of New Orleans earlier this year, and the series of deadly tornadoes that battered Salt Lake City, Nashville and Miami in the late 1990s. "They're a very rare event," Jim Keeney, meteorologist at the National Weather Service...
...Guifu's farmland is still above water, and for that he can thank China's environmental movement. For years power companies have longed to dam the Nu River, which flows flat and olive drab below the fields where Yu and his family earn $1,200 a year growing corn, rice and strawberries. So far they haven't succeeded. "That river hasn't changed in my lifetime," says Yu, 50, as he rolls a cigarette and squishes his bare feet in a soft embankment. "But I don?t know what will happen next...
...Design Innovation: Reimagined flat, drab soap dispensers as sleek, rounded objects of translucent elegance and refinement...
...Jobs' great skill has always been integrating cutting-edge technology and making it accessible. Flat-panel monitors, moviemaking software, wi-fi, digital-music players, touch-sensitive screens - these have all been out there over the past decade or so in ragged and unpolished ways. His genius was finding and repackaging them, making the technology work to delight the masses. Similarly, Apple's iPhone 2.0 will popularize "geo-location" - think of the satellite-based navigation systems in many cars - as a way for people to communicate wherever they...
...only a stepping stone to what Harvard would achieve over the course of the rest of its season. The Crimson cruised to a 3-1 win over Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot to secure itself a place in the finals against BC. Instead of falling flat as it did against the Eagles earlier in the season, Harvard went toe-to-toe with the eventual NCAA champions, rallying from two goals down with nine minutes to go in the final period to force overtime. Taylor scored two of the team’s five goals in the thriller...