Word: originated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husc, as it used to be back in those days). But I should have known better, given Harvard's undergraduate population of 6,500, an Asian-American population of just under 20 percent and the popularity of many common Asian surnames--particularly those of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese origin. So when I hit enter, the account registration program instantly informed me I was "lee39...
...question of the sphere's origin is left unanswered at the end of the film--along with a lot of other loose ends--but it's really no mystery. It probably came from the Forbidden Planet, a realm first explored in the classic 1956 sci-fi adventure movie. Its inhabitants had mastered the technique of invading people's minds, prying their darkest passions out of them and turning them back on their victims. Obviously Hoffman's character isn't the only figure involved with Sphere who has a good memory for the classic tropes of dystopian...
...HUAM's policy stipulates that the person in charge of a given exhibit, its curator, "should have reasonable assurance under the circumstances that the object has not...been exported from its country of origin (and/or the country where it was last legally owned) in violation of that country's laws...
...interest about the election of the mayor and the bad feeling that got generated in this last [election]...has its origin in the use of the term 'mayor' for an office that isn't really a mayor's," Trumbull says, referring to the Cambridge mayor's limited power...
These subsurface waves explain more than the origin and propagation of El Ninos. They also explain how El Ninos end. When the waves first hit the South American coast, some reflect back, like sound bouncing off a wall. When the reflected waves reach Asia, they rebound again. But this double bounce inverts their effect: instead of depressing the thermocline, these twice-reflected waves now lift it up. Cool water dilutes the warmer liquid at the surface, causing a temperature drop in the eastern Pacific known, aptly enough, as La Nina. Thus, observes Ants Leetmaa, director of the National Climate Prediction...