Word: glaciality
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...blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began the glacial process of ''rehabilitation.'' Cheng petitioned the police to investigate the death of Meiping. But not until October 1978 did a committee of officials finally come to her house ''to apologize to you for the wrongful arrest and imprisonment you suffered.'' The police also unfroze her bank accounts and promised...
...summary of its fourth report on Friday, concluding with “very high confidence” that humans have had a significant role in causing climate change and will continue to do so increasingly in the future. Human activity is causing warmer weather, extreme changes in precipitation patterns, glacial melting, and rising sea levels, according to the report. The panel was able to reach its near-certain consensus due to the increasing availability of documentation of weather patterns and more sophisticated observation tools. Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government John P. Holdren...
...pace of events in Ghazaliya and other violent neighborhoods in Baghdad these days makes the policy debate on Iraq in Washington seem like a glacial process doomed to produce a strategy immediately rendered outdated. Even now, much of Washington appears to be clinging to the belief that the killing across Iraq is not a civil war, since the violence has unfolded in fluid patterns defying conventional notions of a battlefield divided by opposing forces. But that now is changing. The war is down to territorial street fights in places like Ghazaliya, where Cartee and the men in his platoon...
...modern world with what is, in many respects, a prehistoric brain. We may think we've grown accustomed to living in a predator-free environment in which most of the dangers of the wild have been driven away or fenced off, but our central nervous system--evolving at a glacial pace--hasn't got the message...
...delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with aplomb. Especially good are Lloyd-Bollard, as the perpetually-angry newscaster Sian, and Renaud, as the flighty and emotionally fragile artist Wynne. When the play aims for genuine pathos, however, it falls a bit flat, since the characters have long since gone beyond the realm...