Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...World Wars I and II, in Korea and Vietnam, America joined conflicts already in progress. In the gulf, the U.S. and its allies would be starting war out of a long, calculated pause, proceeding from that deliberative cool into violent heat. The circumstances made Americans feel surreal, not entirely sure of themselves, and somewhat clammy...
...springs and curious kinks. Nearly every one is pungent with the "damp hessian, methylated spirits and freshly planed deal" of Bombay in the '40s, and colorful families "big in rawolfia serpentina and chinchona bark"; the protagonists are mystics, madmen and hermaphrodites. And nearly all describe episodes of heat and lust, watched through homemade cracks by randy teenage boys. Inside the cunning boxes lie spicy sweetmeats...
...found concern for sovereignty and human rights. But "no blood for oil" chants dismiss too glibly the real pain that Iraqi control of oil reserves would exert. For example, doctors report increased malnutrition among Boston children, as their parents must use more of their disposable income to heat their homes. The tradeoff between oil and food is even more acute in the Third World. War is always more palatable when we are fighting for higher principles, not "vital interests." But in this war, higher principles and vital interests are largely--though by no means perfectly--in harmony, and the interests...
Astronomers trying to piece together the universe's past have two major pieces of evidence with which to work. The first is that the whole thing began with a Big Bang, an explosion of unimaginable heat and power, between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago. The second is that the modern-day cosmos is made up of galaxies. Gravity presumably played a role in the process, but the details are unknown...
...most controversial aspect of the SimEarth model may be its reliance on the so-called Gaia hypothesis, a theory of evolution that views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the sun increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard...