Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found there was a lot of confusion. I had to ask for a toolbox that was issued automatically to everyone else. When the men in my shop realized I was fully prepared to get dirty and I could crawl under a truck, climb an antenna and wade in the mud without melting, I was no longer a liability but an asset. My assignments from 1974 to 1980 were a learning experience for the men and for me. We were professionals, and we learned to respect each other. We also joked. In additon, we knew we could always depend on each...
...window, and drove 10 blocks to the police station to meet with officers. Within minutes, word spread through the town of 3,000 that a man who may have been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing was in the hands of Herington's five-man police department. Farmers in mud-caked boots, some holding small children in their arms, planted themselves across from the police station and stared mutely. Students just let out of school arrived and stood in clusters six deep. Some climbed into the beds of pickup trucks to get a better view. "Bring him out," they chanted...
Flames, myths, MUD's, MOOs, caffeine and sugared cereals. For months, such was the life of J.C. Herz '93, former CrimeEd, as she immersed herself in the culture and subculture of the Internet to research her debut effort, Surfing The Internet (Little, Brown, & Co). The result of sleep deprivation and stimulant overload is a sassy, hypercharged piece of cyberculture shock which reads like an extended Internet session and takes J.C. to the furthest points of cyberspace and back. Through virtual worlds full of meaningless babble and technological romance, around connection obstacles and cultural consequences, Herz's faster-than-a-speeding...
Last week's marathon of rain and mud and wind cost 15 lives and up to $2 billion in damage, as some of the country's richest farmlands turned to stew. In Monterey County particularly, Nature brought herself to ruin: winds wrecked the orchards; floods loosened the vines and dragged crops out of the fields, which were too wet for tractors to plant new crops. Bees stopped pollinating, leaving peach trees and cherry trees barren. Even the cows were troubled, growing stingy with milk when their feet were wet and their routines disrupted...
California's troubles are all entangled: lots of rain means lusher growth, which, if a dry season follows, means more tinder to burn. If the fires torch the hillsides, there's nothing left to hold the mountains together, so when the rains return, the mud slides are worse. And when earthquakes come, the spongy ground can turn to pudding, and a house quivering on top sinks to the bottom of the bowl...