Word: glacially
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...greedy, growing world is fast running out of resources, two of them being oil and freshwater. Maybe we have to rethink our priorities. It might be better to build pipelines to ship pure glacial water to the thirsty people of the world, as I haven't met anyone yet who drinks...
...apparent cause of this suddenly far from glacial flow rate is global warming - not because all of the ice itself is melting so fast, but because record melting at its upper surface is letting water percolate down to the bedrock, where it acts as a lubricant. Another factor, says Dowdeswell: ice "tongues" that form where glaciers meet the ocean have broken up over recent years, removing a sort of roadblock that holds them in check...
...Eight Below” is essentially little more than a snow spectacle; an excuse for gratuitous glacial shots and heart-tugging doggy-danger sequences...
...adapted from a Scott Phillips novel. It’s a nasty, biting little bugger, a film noir bejeweled with shards of sharp black comedy. Its seedy characters—linked together through mob ties—mingle aimlessly in squalid strip clubs and vast stretches of barren glacial suburbia. They’re all motivated by a common goal: escaping the tedium that lays thick all over Wichita, Kan. It’s a reverse “Wizard of Oz,” with all of the Dorothys and Totos desperately clawing over each other for a glimpse...
...exhibit belongs to visiting professor Tishan Hsu, and depicts ocean waves and bird feathers crashing into one another and propelling off the screen. A tour of the exhibit would appropriately end with a look at Burden Visiting Professor of Photography Deborah Bright’s two “Glacial Erratic” pictures, showing the same rock photographed with the full explosion of seasonal variety around them. Visitors should also note that the exhibition space itself was designed by visiting lecturer Sergio Muñoz-Sarmiento and his CLANCCO company...