Word: frigid
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...With the frigid New England winter around the corner, many students like Yadav must consider how they will deal with snow and ice for the first time. Many have never owned a jacket before...
Other scientists are content to speculate. Not Cady. She's collecting samples not only in Yellowstone but also in the Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand and the frigid depths of a lake in British Columbia. When astronauts or robot craft finally start hauling home rocks from other planets, those specimens can be compared with Cady's for the tiny thumbprint of life both may contain. The trick, she says, "is knowing what clues to look...
...front room of the Hasty Pudding building, the women of the Seneca have gathered on a frigid weekday afternoon for the first event...
...remarkable species, the "extremophiles," have achieved astonishing feats of physiological adaptation at the ends of habitable Earth. In the most frigid polar waters, fish and other animals flourish, their blood kept fluid by biochemical antifreezes. Populations of bacteria live in the spumes of volcanic thermal vents on the ocean floor, multiplying in water above the boiling point. And far beneath Earth's surface, to a depth of 2 miles (3.2 km) or more, dwell the SLIMES (subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems), unique assemblages of bacteria and fungi that occupy pores in the interlocking mineral grains of igneous rock and derive their...
...diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels and the occasional...