Word: glaciality
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...rest day. We were at the village of Janglic on the side of a glacial valley, 3,000 m up in India's western Himalayas. Tibet lay 50 km to the north. The road through the mountains had ended some 10 km back and 1,300 m below. A bank of wild marijuana was on our left, and a series of terraces on our right led down to a sheer 500-m drop into a river gorge. A priest had just decapitated a goat on the flat roof of a house. He lifted the animal's head...
...year was 1988, and the U.S. AIDS epidemic was in full bloom. Angry homosexual groups were blaming the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for the glacial pace of government research, drug testing and drug approval. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the agency since 1984, was singled out for attack, branded a "Nazi" and a "murderer," and hanged in effigy...
...emerging genetic picture tells a different story, one that identifies the earliest Europeans as scraggly, persistent foragers who had hunkered down during the glacial age. "This research changes the whole debate about Europe, shifts it back in time from the Neolithic era of farming to the Paleolithic era of hunter-gatherers," says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of mitochondrial DNA analysis. "There's now a much clearer sense that the genes we carry lived through the Ice Age, that our ancestors were hunting bison and reindeer with essentially the same genetic...
...Saturday Gore's contest of the election in Sauls' courtroom continued at a glacial pace, bogged down in statistics and chads, just as Bush's lawyers had hoped. Every delay brings them closer to Dec. 12, when the states must appoint electors to the Electoral College. Even if Sauls does rule in Gore's favor this week that some 14,000 ballots from heavily Democratic areas must be counted, the counters may not have enough time to get it done...
...much a magic trick as a really stupid dare, which is why it's only appropriate that DAVID BLAINE's first words on emerging after 61 hours of standing entombed in a giant block of ice were, "Ow! Ow!" Blaine, a self-proclaimed "mystifier," entered his glacial prison on ABC's Good Morning America on Nov. 27 wearing only cargo pants, a wool hat and boots. He either forgot a shirt or figured his smokin'-hot abs would keep him warm. Unexpectedly balmy conditions, however, made the ice cave unstable, and doctors implored Blaine to don an emergency sweater. Reluctantly...