Word: rain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demonstrators said they targeted Shell not only for the company's relations with a government notorious for its human rights violations, but also because oil drilling methods harm local Nigerian agriculture and rain forests...
...real action was on the rain-soaked carpet, where the Crimson, in spite of the elements, managed to play a stylish game of soccer that really made the opponents look like the Bad News Bears...
...some first-year dorms. Winthrop House, perhaps the worst hit, suffered an entirely waterlogged dining hall and a soggy mailroom. Other examples of flooding include the basement of Eliot House and the entire Dewolfe street side of New Quincy, where, according to acting Superintendent Jay Coveney, the wind-driven rain simply penetrated the wall of the building...
...Neither rain, nor sleet, nor thick of night could keep Schubert groupies from attending Sunday's performance of Die Schone Mullerin at the Museum of Fine Arts, despite the soggy deluge of the afternoon's Nor'easter. After wading through the flooded Fenway in standard duck boots/GoreTex combo's, soaked devotees crowded into the MFA's Remis Auditorium to hear Christopheren Nomura perform some of the German composer's most effusive and affecting ballads...
...Abnormalities like this get me worried," says David Hoppe, a University of Minnesota herpetologist. "We don't know how far this is going to go." Because frogs spend much of their life in water, pesticides or toxic metals were prime suspects. But now possible causes include acid rain, global warming and increased ultraviolet light. Hoppe observes that different deformities seem to be concentrated in frogs from different regions. It may be, he says, that more than one cause is at work...