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Over the past 2 1/2 decades, more than 32 cyclones, the Indian Ocean's equivalents of the hurricanes of the Atlantic and the typhoons of the Pacific, have boiled out of the moist, hot air over the Bay of Bengal to sweep across Bangladesh. With its wide-open flatlands and labyrinthine waterways sprinkled with hundreds of chars (tiny islands created by silt deposits from the rivers and tributaries that empty into the bay and shift as the water level changes), southern Bangladesh is especially vulnerable to the attacks of great tropical tempests. Seven of the world's ten most destructive...
...narrow at the top, it funnels the cyclones as they rumble northward from the Indian Ocean, building up ferocious tides. Generally born during the hottest time of the year (which around the Bay of Bengal is in the spring or fall), a storm system begins to build as heated, moist air is sucked north into the bay. The hot-air mass rises, creating an updraft. When the air inside the system cools, its moisture condenses into rain, releasing heat, which in turn sends more hot air upward with ever greater velocity...
...Kirk DesHotels dismounted and ran for a chicken. The rules are that all chickens must be chased on foot. The chicken got away. A | tourist, a blond Tennessean with looks that beg a swoon, approached young Kirk to share a word. He gave her one of those long moist looks of love everlasting, as she read it. "I allllmost caught that chicken," he said, and it was then she realized it was the chase that held his passion...
More than 1750 points and four years since he sank what else an 18-ft. Jumper from the corner-for his first two collegiate points, Carrabino is closing in on the Crimson's moist prestigious record...
...Svetlana remembered her papochka, Stalin was tender with her in her early childhood, bestowing "loud moist kisses" and calling her "little sparrow." But as she reached adolescence, he became incensed by her independent spirit. He berated her for the "insolence" on her face. He made a scene when he found her wearing a tight sweater. He hated the sight of her in short skirts and made her wear hers much longer than other schoolgirls did. When he learned that she had a lover, he slapped her twice across the face...