Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until recently, such an ostensibly time-consuming process didn't occur often enough. But this was my first summer away from home and my first non-academic Cambridge living experience. These were welcome challenges, but I never realized how exciting and indelible they would...
Post-season play--which seems like an afterthought to much of the baseball community--will occur without the services of the reigning home run king, but Trachsel's Cubs are in the thick of the National League Wild Card race...
Such cycles occur every several decades. Researchers emphasize that both phases, active and quiet, are normal, but that's not very reassuring. Even if the next high-intensity phase of hurricane activity is simply a replay of the last such period, it will wreak far more destruction. Reason: a frenzy of coastal construction has brought huge populations to live at America's beaches and barrier islands--people with no conception of what it's like to sustain a direct hit from a truly powerful hurricane...
...knows why these cycles occur. According to Bill Gray, a hurricane expert from Colorado State University, one reason may be a phenomenon known as the "Atlantic conveyor." The subject of much recent research, the conveyor is a gigantic oceanic flywheel that transports cold water from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before...
...tells it in her newest book, Joyce Maynard received a mimeograph machine from her mother for her seventh birthday. Not lacking in initiative, young Maynard began producing a newspaper and selling it door to door. "It would never occur to me that our neighbors wouldn't be interested to read what I write. Or that I shouldn't charge a nickel for it. Later a dime," Maynard notes. "My mother schools me young to view my writing as valuable. She conveys another lesson too: whatever happens in my life, I can look at it as material...