Word: overnights
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...describe these organisms as hardy would be an understatement. The Dry Valleys are so cold (the mean annual temperature hovers around -5ºF) that glacier-fed streams run no more than six weeks a year, and so arid that what little snow falls turns to vapor almost overnight. Scientists recently reported, however, that sequestered in the 60 ft. of ice that covers one of the largest Dry Valleys lakes, Lake Vida, are dormant but still viable bacteria that have been sealed off from the outside world for some 3,000 years...
...billions in obligations to workers are panicked over losses and confused about how to respond. And investors are fast learning that pension liabilities can reduce or even eliminate the profits of the world's largest corporations. Fortunately for the employees involved, companies do not have to plug the holes overnight. The shortfalls are in obligations that stretch far into the future. "We have years to address this," says Ross Cook, a spokesman for British Telecommunications (BT), a company whose pension-fund deficit is currently calculated at about $2.63 billion. But experts say the shortfalls should raise alarms about the long...
CDIED. SARAH MCCLENDON, 92, tenacious White House reporter; of pneumonia; in Washington. A single mother who wrote for small Texas papers, McClendon has pestered every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the 1990s, she still rose at 4:30 a.m. to check the White House information line for overnight updates...
...intolerable from Japan's perspective," says Takashi Inoguchi, a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. For now, the world is still not dangerous enough for Japan to crank up its military machine. But that could change?and a nation's allergy toward combat could be cured overnight...
...said that, contrary to popular belief, there is not just one type of student who feels compelled to study overnight in the library...