Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evidence: the photographs taken on Aug. 6, 1945, and the days afterward; the drawings that the child survivors made to show what they had seen; the blinding thousand-sun light; the river choked with bodies; the melted clocks; the nuclear soot that fell upon the city -- "black rain." These sights are implanted in the minds of today's Japanese children as What? Warning? Against what exactly? Accusation? Against whom precisely...
...Shelter (Houghton Mifflin; 279 pages; $21.95), Phillips continues to ladle on the prose: "In the splintering pour of the storm there is such a silence, like a church or a cell, a cloister, empty, and rain courses down the broken glass of the block-paned windows. Some of the jagged glass juts up like tongues, other panes are shattered intact, jeweled in their frames in webbed configurations." You know -- it was raining...
...turn into immediate nostalgia as we began our Harvard years with the First-Year Outdoor Program (FOP). In fact, the whole journey to Cambridge seemed like excellent material for the next Alex Keshishian film. Picture the opening scene: a horde of FOP leaders charging Sever Quad and performing a rain dance which, unfortunately for all who are involved, is all too successful...
CAUTION: YOU WILL HIKE WHEN YOU HAVE NO MORE ENERGY TO DO SO AND EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE NO MORE SKIN ON YOUR FEET. YOU WILL EAT NATURE BURGERS AND WORSHIP CHEDDAR WITH MUSTARD ON A PITA. YOU WILL SLEEP IN THE RAIN. YOU WILL WEAR SWEAT-SOAKED T-SHIRTS AND DON FLEECE SWEATSUITS THAT LOOK AS IF THEY CAME OUT OF A '70'S JANE FONDA VIDEO. YOU WILL LEARN WHAT IS POSSIBLE SIMPLY THROUGH PHYSICAL EXERTION. YOU WILL STRETCH THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT YOU CAN ENDURE. YOU MAY EVEN HAVE A GOOD TIME...
Scientists believe Ebola virus made just that kind of jump, from monkeys into humans; so did other African viruses such as Marburg and the mysterious X that broke out in Sudan. And many more are likely to emerge. "In the Brazilian rain forest," says Dr. Robert Shope, a Yale epidemiologist, "we know of at least 50 different viruses that have the capacity of making people sick. There are probably hundreds more that we haven't found...