Word: flooded
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...members of one protected species to save three of another? What was going on here? In his nightly commentary, NBC's John Chancellor singled out the sound of the whales' labored breathing, a reminder of another mammal's desperate urge to live, as the signal that triggered the national flood of empathy. But there was something more at work. Once the whales entered America's living rooms, they became, in effect, giant pets. Nicknamed, anthropomorphized and even serenaded by guitars, the whales prompted straight- faced comparisons with last year's dramatic rescue of Jessica McClure from a Texas well...
...without mass or charge, it was difficult to pin down. Lederman calculates that a single neutrino has only a fifty-fifty chance of being deflected when streaming through 100 million miles of solid steel. The young physicists used the powerful accelerator in Brookhaven, L.I., to produce and aim a flood of protons at a beryllium metal target. The stupendous collisions of protons slamming into the barrier shattered atomic nuclei, releasing new particles, including neutrinos. The particles then hit a wall of steel that absorbed all but a single beam, which carried billions of neutrinos into a + detector. Studying the debris...
...cutting edge of civil rights advances. Now, however, the Justices may be on the verge of a historic rollback. In an unusual move, the court last week considered whether to overturn its 1976 ruling in Runyon v. McCrary, a key civil rights decision. That possibility prompted a flood of briefs from Senators, Congressmen, state attorneys general and civil rights groups urging the court not to overrule Runyon...
...didn't really expect that flood in the first week," she said, "We had almost twice as much work in this office." The deluge of petitions caught Law's office unprepared forcing staff to work overtime and push back other projects, said...
...flood the world with condoms," said McNamara, explaining that stemming the continent's population explosion alone would not be enough. "Africa needs political scientists devoted to developing long-term programs...