Word: porousness
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...been exactly a month since the Jets' 28-3 win over Green Bay catapulted both New York teams into the playoffs. And it will take lot longer than a month for New York fans to forget that day. Quarterback Richard Todd racked up four touchdowns against a porous Packer defense, and the Jets' defensive front four, led by Mark Gastineau and Joe Klecko, put constant pressure on beleaguered Green Bay QB Lynn Dickey...
...National Weather Service Meteorologist Richard Wagoner. But the storm was far from normal, and so was its nightmarish impact. The extraordinarily heavy rains that poured down on Northern California last week-in some areas, more than a foot in 32 hours-followed weeks of rain that had saturated the porous clay earth. On Monday, mountainsides began turning to mud, flowing in thick torrents over towns and rural houses in their paths. In wealthy Marin Bounty, just north of San Francisco, more han 80 houses were destroyed by mud slides. In Santa Cruz County, to the south, where thousands of people...
...Harvard offense has looked very good at times--most notably, Cuccia and running backs Jim Callinan and Jim Acheson--and at other times hasn't been able to carve out any drives worthy of mention. If it can't do it against porous Princeton, it never will...
...flood land that trapped and filtered fresh water. But to clear the way for development, as well as to control floods, these wetlands have been largely drained away. This has not only threatened the quality of surface water but also cut off its flow into underlying aquifers, the porous rock formations that serve as subterranean reservoirs...
...innermost, corresponding to the dermis, is a mixture of a protein from cowhide and a complex carbohydrate derived from shark cartilage. When mixed with an acidic solution, the two ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin is then freeze-dried and stored in sterile, closed containers at room temperature...