Word: glaciality
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...glacial masses that have long hovered over the Charles River have dissipated and the women's crew team has returned to dominate the watery plane...
...could start sometime within the next 1,000 or 2,000 years. But geophysicists have realized for years that while the cycles are real, and influence climate, they alone cannot explain ice ages. For one thing, Milankovitch's timing of glaciation may be broadly correct, but major glacial episodes happen when his cycles call for minor ones, and vice versa...
...letter, signed by the Class of 1953's "ad hoc committee on the status of women at Harvard/Radcliffe," says the College propagates a sexist atmosphere for women and has made "glacial progress" in hiring female faculty members...
...Porcupine renders in loving detail, the trial of a fictional ex-communist leader, and the ascent of the man who prosecutes him. Its themes also include the glacial pace of change and documents the parturition pains of a newly emerging democracy. It has been published at a particularly opportune time. The trial of former German leader Erich Honecker and the entire communist system now occupies much of our attention here in the west...
Safely tucked away in a deep "pool" in the glacial stream, protected from currents and preserved by the frigid -6 degrees C temperature, the Iceman lay undisturbed for more than 53 centuries. And centuries more might have passed before he was discovered were it not for a foehn that last year delivered tons of North African desert sand to the Alpine ridges. "This is a common phenomenon," explains climatologist Dreiseitel, "but in 1991 it coincided with a winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps...