Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several weeks ago, when I first heard of RSI, I was quick to dismiss it as a '90s phenomenon that could only befall computer addicts, attached to their motherboards by a virtual umbilical cord. Alternatively, I wrote RSI off as a trendy psycho-somatic problem for humanities concentrators desperately in need of an extension...
...influences the climate of the whole earth and enforces natural extremes, droughts as well as floods. Temperature differences increase, and that causes more and heavier storms and other natural catastrophes. You have to pay attention to all the connections in climate because everything is related. You cannot separate one phenomenon from the climate as a whole. THOMAS FEHER and BENJAMIN GREIFF Dresden, Germany...
POLITICIANS: Don't try this in your district. Randiness as a way to get your poll numbers up is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. Think Jimmy Carter, not Bill Clinton. Alpha males might want to sit out the year 2000. Only candidates with the sexual discipline of the Pope should declare...
...means an isolated phenomenon--nearly everyone has a fire door at some point in their Harvard career; nearly everyone has heard someone having intimate relations through a fire door. "It's sort of striking, though," says the Quincy resident. "I mean, the regularity. I don't think any students could be that dependable...
Others have considered the flip side of this phenomenon, including one Adams House resident. "I don't know who lives on the other side of our fire door, but I can't imagine what they must think of us." He describes the conversations which go on in his room as "just basically, surprisingly crude. In class, I think that people see me as a polite, serious guy. Around my roommates, I deteriorate." He speculates that "whoever it is [on the other side of that door,] they see a side of me that the rest of the world does...