Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is going on? Scientists have a standard reply to questions like this. It is the nature of weather, they say, for wild fluctuations to occur. Their proof: there is a record broken every day somewhere in the world. But after last week's weather -- which showed every sign of being this week's weather as well -- the standard reply starts to wear a little thin. Why are so many records being set in so many places right now? Could it have anything to do with the holes we've drilled in the ozone layer? The forests we've leveled...
...global warming -- even if a few privately suspect it to be so. The theory that the buildup of CO2, methane and other heat-trapping gases can raise global temperatures -- like the glass in the walls of a greenhouse -- is well established, but no one knows how much warming will occur or how soon. While early computer models suggested that average global temperatures could jump 3 degreesF to 9 degreesF by the middle of the next century, recent studies have cast doubt on those estimates. Even a small change in average temperatures can trigger big changes in local weather patterns...
Another facet of her secret is sheer vitality. There is great energy in her step; when she enters a room, she makes an immediate impact. She radiates health, and for good reason. She still rides, swims regularly and is an implacable hiker. The hikes occur at her country estate in Middleburg, Virginia, and at her spread in Sun Valley, Idaho. That's where she goes to relax (always accompanied by legions of houseguests...
Many things could delay the renovation--freak accidents, unforeseen glitches, labor strikes, shoddy workmanship. Harvard Real Estate and College officials know, though, that if a major delay does occur, they will most likely end up having to explain it to the national media, as well as to parents and alumni...
...pederasts is Sri Lanka. "There are no ads in catalogs for sex tours, and yet people are coming for sex," says Maureen Seneviratne, an anti- child prostitution activist in Colombo. Guides to the local boy-sex scene are easy to find, she says, and the illegal trysts frequently occur behind the walls of well-guarded compounds where police never venture...