Word: polarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That could be explained if the solid inner core were a crystal, in which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result in a kind of geological weather system in which iron particles precipitate out of solution and rain down toward the core in a continuous...
Coldest Rink: Bright Center. The temperature at the Boston Zoo's polar bear area went dangerously high recently. The bears headed straight for Bright...
...after all the shooting was over, the Crimson put its seventh consecutive notch on its Bowdoin gun barrel with a 9-0 drubbing of the Polar Bears in front of 45 fans...
...Souza finished the game with a stiff shoulder. But the minor injury had little effect on the freshman's third shutout this season, because Harvard opened up its offense and kept the puck in the Polar Bears' end for most of the third period...
...bench and directed the puck towards the right wing. Wolfram then set up in the left corner and was spilled going for the puck. She then skated towards the slot where she was promptly dumped in front by a Bowdoin player a foot taller than she and twice stopped Polar Bear rushes by keeping the puck in the zone. "Instead of calling her "Mad Dog," we ought to call her "Mad Crease," D'Souza said...Harvard closes out its regular season when it plays Dartmouth Wednesday, after which it hosts the Ivy League tournament...