Word: icing
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...greenhouses pump in extra CO2 to encourage growth - but they fail to note that hotter summers and increasing droughts could threaten agriculture. They assert that sea levels can rise only 1.5 ft. over the coming century, ignoring the very real risk of accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which would multiply that number. They downplay the risks of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. And they make a habit of referring to any climate scientist who expresses fear over a warmer future as a "doomsayer" - a bit of a loaded term...
There are no kids in Hollywood, only a kid market. So the moguls gleefully rub their rough hands at the recent blooming of animated features into a reliable blockbuster genre. Anyone could have predicted that Pixar's Up, Blue Sky's Ice Age 3 and DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens would be among the year's top-grossing pictures, but who saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs coming? The success of Meatballs, G-Force and Where the Wild Things Are underlines the movie industry's hope that in every jaded teen or wizened adult there's an inner child whose...
...couple of years ago, there was some hope that the scourge of meth addiction, which was especially bad in rural America, might dissipate. In 2005, Congress had curbed over-the-counter sales of pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient of the psychostimulant drug methamphetamine, also known as crystal meth or ice. After that, the number of clandestine meth labs in the U.S. plummeted...
Emma Doyle, a local resident and restaurant customer, agreed. “I love Fire and Ice,” she said. “And I think it’s great that they’re expanding and doing something for the younger crowd here in Cambridge...
...frequent patron of Fire and Ice, Paul R. Pate ’12, is thrilled to learn about the restaurant’s new plans. “It sounds pretty cool to me,” he says. “If there are pool tables, I’ll be there. I love pool...