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Kurkjian was inspired to run for public office when she found out there was a hole in the ozone layer...
...original rationale behind a screen saver was to prevent a phenomenon called burn-in which plagued older generations of computer monitors. When the same image was left on the screen for too long, the phosphorus layer on the surface of the screen would record that image and form a permanent "ghost" image. The "ghost" would then be visible at all times and interfere with the proper working of the monitor...
Screen savers helped avoid the forming of "ghost" images by varying the displayed image on the screen. While they were useful five or six years ago, they are no longer needed on today's computers. Modern monitors are coated with a layer of specially processed phosphorus that resists burning, even when hit by the same electron beam repeatedly for a long period of time...
...length, died in a silty washout. At least two albertosaurs, sharp-toothed scavengers about half T. rex's size, fed on the carcass, leaving a few of their teeth behind. Within months a river overflowed its banks and swept the bones away, eventually covering them with a three-foot $ layer of silt, which preserved them for eternity--and Stan Sacrison...
...freezing -- an extraordinary 0 degrees Fahrenheit -- and it's snowing, and in the language that is no longer mine, the snow is qanik -- big, almost weightless crystals falling in clumps and covering the ground with a layer of pulverized white frost. December darkness rises up from the grave...