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...These strong thunderstorms develop into tropical storms as they suck warm surface water to the top of the storm. This warm water is released upward into the cooler air, creating dense clouds and a concentrated area of low pressure that surrounds a spiraling, eerily calm eye. Powerful, counterclockwise winds pick up speed as they move over and feed of off warm water, and when they reach speeds of 74 mph or more, the storms are reclassified as hurricanes. Unfortunately for residents of the eastern U.S., the Caribbean and Central America, late-summer conditions in the central Atlantic offer a perfect...
There was an "expectation that we would pick up the pace," Grogan added...
April acceptance packets included the option for Jewish students to move in on Friday afternoon, Sunday or Monday morning. About 130 first-years took the FDO up on the offer, many choosing to pick up their keys Friday...
That's particularly true of Hatosy. He's not so much a goofball as a radical innocent trying to pick up the clues to the preppie lifestyle but at the same time remaining fiercely loyal to his family and friends back home. It's a touching quality, and the actor engagingly lives it. Ditto Baldwin as his roughneck father, who has a depressive's shrewdness about other people's weaknesses as well as a depressive's inability to do anything about his own life, which consists mainly of railing at his children and playing poker with his boozy cronies...
Ithaca high school physics teacher Steve Wirt gets e-mail from parents regularly, some from moms and dads he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern. Using software called Blackboard CourseInfo, designed to make website building intuitive for teachers, Wirt conducts online chats with his students, often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems...