Word: glaciality
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...volcano erupted for the second time, after being dormant since 1976. University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone explained that the Mount Augustine eruptions, which shot ash eight miles into the sky, are loosely related to the earthquakes in that both are caused by the same "gross global mechanism": the glacial movement of the Pacific tectonic plate, which is inching north below California and diving under southern Alaska...
Indian and Canadian authorities probing last June's crash of Air India Flight 182 into the North Atlantic off the coast of Ireland have proceeded with glacial deliberation. India has never officially confirmed what many have suspected all along: that the third-worst aviation accident in history, which took the lives of all 307 passengers and 22 crew members, was the result of a bomb planted in the aircraft's luggage compartment. In spite of their tight- lipped treatment of the case, investigators know much more than they are letting on. Or at least so says Canadian Journalist Salim Jiwa...
Students need representatives who will push the administration to solve problems. Unless the council pressures it, college officials will find answers only in their own long time. Influencing the administration requires energy, authority, and action, not the council's hot air and glacial movement...
Some would say the same for Harvard, where the process of change appears to move with glacial speed. But here the ever-present University critics are mistaken. Fruitful change in the University is an ever-present fact...
...only hope and trust--and I do--that the University has a conscience bigger than many around here give it credit for. The way to evoke change--even if it is glacial in pace--is not through violence and building takeovers, not through continuously putting the University on the defensive...