Word: icing
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You’ve been spending so much time in Lamont that you’ve made a nest in the Farnsworth Room, and your fellow ’round-the-clockers are looking pretty hott right now. But how do you break the ice with your bookworm beauty? Fifteen Minutes has a few suggestions to help you go Lamonster on that hottie. . . 1) I hear Lamont is the new Widener stacks. 2) You’re reading Habermas? I’d love to colonize your private spheres. 3) We should probably find the nearest exit; there?...
...thousands of people ... The first thing you want to do is to stabilize the situation and get help to people. You have to set up centers to do that. You have to provide information. You have to be able to provide water--and in the South in the summertime, ice...
...forces that have caused the coast to subside are pretty well understood. What's far less clear is the possible role of global warming. That rising temperatures heat the ocean and melt ice caps is undisputed. Most climate models also predict that turning up the worldwide thermometer will lead to more extreme weather patterns--hotter hots, colder colds, harder rains. Hurricanes would seem to be especially sensitive to climate changes, since warm ocean waters are the fuel that drives the storms...
...potential is clear. A one-way journey from Boston to Washington DC on Amtrak’s Acela Express takes 9 hours and 15 minutes, but over roughly the same distance from Frankfurt to Munich, Germany’s InnerCity Express (ICE) takes one-third the time and costs $30 less. For the same journeys, flights take approximately the same amount of time as ICE, but are cheaper in Europe than in the U.S. because airlines have to compete with train fares. After adding time for transport to the airport, security and check-in, ICE is very time-competitive with...
...addition, travel on Western European trains is very reliable—ICE reports punctuality rates of 94 percent, just ahead of the pan-European Eurostar train’s 92 percent. European train operators have realized that few things annoy travelers more than transport delays. Amtrak has not. Its 77 percent on time rate puts it roughly on par with European and US flight punctuality. European trains also provide less quantitative benefits, including wireless internet, uninterrupted cell phone services, and something that planes will never have: Windows that open and fresh air. Unsurprisingly, while Amtrak stagnates in the U.S., more...