Word: phenomenons
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...same phenomenon exists within student government at Harvard. The issues that are most important to the largest number of council representatives rise to the forefront of the council's efforts. Last year's council was successful on many issues like reforming the Core, extending the hours for shuttle buses and libraries, sprucing up Loker-issues of general student interest. These topics were addressed because of their relevance to the daily lives of council members: shuttle service was of great concern to those from the Quad, first-years had a stake in Loker...
Nothing is more evident of this phenomenon than the death of a fraternity pledge at Louisiana State University earlier this month. After Rush Week, the fraternity members and the new pledges began drinking. Heavily. At these events, phrases like "Here's a fifth, drink it" pop up frequently. After an afternoon and evening of such drinking, a new pledge (and several others) passed out in the fraternity house. Thinking that they had simply had a little much, the other members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon let them lie there. Only after several hours did they take the unconscious members...
...about how the old-fashioned denizens of Europe were supposedly corrupting their fresh, young American counterparts with deceit and superficiality. Almost 60 years later, American journalists and teenybopper magazines used the same analogy of a "British invasion" to describe Beatlemania, couching it in terms of a phenomenon which could not be repelled but which also should not be embraced unequivocally...
Above all she will be remembered as a phenomenon of pure stardom. Her death was a terrible metaphor for that condition. She takes her place, among the broken glass and crushed metal, in the iconography of the crash, alongside James Dean, Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace. These other victims, however, died unpursued. They weren't fleeing the pointed end of their own celebrity: men on motorcycles with computerized cameras and satellite-linked mobile phones. The paparazzi are the high-tech dogs of fame. But it must be admitted that we sent them into that tunnel, to nourish our own mysterious...
Your excellent article on El Nino mentioned the two-week colloquium on the phenomenon held in Boulder, Colo., in July [SCIENCE, Aug. 18]. We'd like to make it clear that this conference was sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research's Advanced Study Program. For those interested in the meeting's outcome, see the Web page at www.dir.ucar.edu/esig/enso MICHAEL GLANTZ, Colloquium Organizer National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, Colo...