Word: icing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mating: "Waiters: Introduce strangers seated together...'break the ice...
...photograph. But this spring the monument to the past came into the news again when the man who had overseen the torture for four years, Kang Khek Ieu, generally known as Duch, was suddenly discovered, by foreign journalists, in a western Cambodian village. He was running a crushed-ice stall in the countryside and had certificates of baptism to prove his status as a born-again Christian. The man who oversaw the execution of at least 16,000 of his countrymen had papers from American churches testifying to his "personal leadership" and "team-building" skills...
...bring in pollutants like insecticides and heavy metals, which collect in the tissues of wildlife and the local Inuit people. At the same time the region has been warming up, and part of the reason may be the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Whatever the cause, sea ice has been retreating farther to the north, making life harder for polar bears and other ice-dwelling animals...
Will future generations regard the vanishing Quelccaya ice cap as a false prophet or as a climatological Cassandra whose warnings were not heeded? Ohio State's Thompson, for one, believes nature has already answered this question. An ice cap has no political opinions, he observes. "Quelccaya is melting because the earth's temperature is going up," he says, "and it's foolish to argue that...
Other local winners in the food and restaurants category include Harvest for brunch, Casablanca for burgers, the Holyoke Center's Campo de' Fiori for fast food, Herrell's Ice Cream for frappes and Toscanini's for ice cream...