Word: frosts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have issues with censorship. In high school I wanted to recite a poem in a competition. It was a damn good poem ("The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche, if anyone's interested), and a poem that I thought might reach people in a school where poetry meant being taught Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" every two years. But this poem, otherwise well-behaved, had one word to which they objected; coincidentally, it was exactly the same word that was excised from my column two weeks...
While spectators may have been thinking, "let's get this thing over with so we can resuscitate our frost-bitten hands," the lacrosse team obviously did not feel the same...
...poet Robert Frost asked whether the world would end in fire or ice. Four years ago, Taylor and other geophysicists found evidence that the answer may be both. The message, extracted from an ice core taken in Greenland, at the opposite end of the earth, was that climate can change dramatically over short periods of time. Roughly 11,500 years ago, Greenland suddenly chilled, and then 1,500 years later, it suddenly warmed. The speed of the last change--an 18[degree] warming in some places in as little as three years--was fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented...
...only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn't see the blob again for 75 years, but that was fine by me because my face and fingers stung from the cold, and I wanted to go home...
...spend heavily on vaccine development because vaccines are generally less profitable. Piot explains, "In most countries, vaccines are purchased by governments, not by individuals. Taxpayers are footing the bill, which keeps prices down." The same is not true of therapeutics. According to a report by U.S. market researchers Frost and Sullivan, sales of antiviral drugs for AIDS and its accompanying infections reached $1.3 billion in 1995 alone...