Word: polarizer
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...minutes and 50 seconds into the overtime period on Saturday afternoon, Bowdoin's Dave Boucher found the net and handed the Crimson junior varsity hockey team its second loss in as many games. The score was 7-6. Boucher's shot capped a Polar Bear comeback that seemed all but impossible...
...libertarian prescription for an ideal world is never precisely set forth in Ergo, although it is implied backhandedly through a criticism of government intervention in the economy or political "freedoms," government grants to study man-polar bear relations, for example. Wright outlines a world where no one coerces anyone. A police force would be funded voluntarily, because those who did not contribute would not receive protection. Wright admits to a small chink in libertarian logical armor when he concedes that someone who refused to pay for a national defense system would benefit from it anyway; but he points out that...
...youngster he considered ornithology as a career and as a Yale undergraduate he kept a boa constrictor for company. But after Yale Law School he ended up a vice president of his family's oil-exploration business, where he indulged his love of travel (visiting both polar regions) and his interest in environmental problems...
...film, only Dalton Trumbo explains the awful terror that came with the subpoena, the process of "getting ready to become nobody." Halpern shows the progressive effect of pressure and time on the writers. They age, dry up, crease and sag--but those with spirit make their physicality irrelevant. The polar two in the film are Trumbo and Edward Dmytryk...
...Warming-trend advocates note that winters in such normally chilly regions as Scandinavia and New England have been uncharacteristically mild in recent years, and glaciers in the Alps have actually retreated. Even a modest rise in world temperatures would bring with it other perils. Ocean levels raised by melting polar ice could drastically change global air-circulation and rainfall patterns, as well as cause extensive flooding. The result could be a radical decline in the productivity of many of the world's important agricultural regions...