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...just like many Harvard commencements, the threat of rain forced administrators to move the event indoors. While many freshmen and parents were able to pack into Sanders Theatre to hear the speakers, others had to watch it on screens in the Science Center...
...city's été pourri - or rotten summer - except perhaps to contest the notion that the capital even experienced one. Indeed, 2007 will be remembered as the year without a summer - the pourriest in 30 years, and second dreariest in the past half century. Monday's forecast (rain, highs of 63 degrees) was rather typical of the season, which dumped down nearly three times the amount of rain as you'd expect to find during an average June-August period. According to French press reports, temperatures only reached seasonal averages around 10 times during those same three months, with...
...while it won't do much for Parisians bundled up against the early September rain and low temperatures, they may take some consolation in knowing the summer was just as bad in other parts of France. Normandy and Brittany experienced wet, cold weather, while the Atlantic coast from the Bordeaux region down to the Spanish border was doused by record-setting volumes of rain. The impact of that went beyond slumping tanning lotion sales. Between cold demis of beer that never got ordered to ice cream that stayed unscooped; from crops that didn't ripen enough to cultivate into summer...
...onto that disk, a rain of ice crystals is falling, slamming into the disk at supersonic speeds and vaporizing to form a cloud containing five times the water in Earth's oceans. What the astronomers are convinced will happen next is that the water will re-freeze into ice particles and eventually form comets - which in turn will crash down onto whatever planets they find, forming oceans that the future scientists of these worlds will someday be scratching their heads over...
...could recognize the milking barn, and a couple hundred cows standing up to their ankles in manure," Parrott says. He sent pictures to Kastel, who posted them on Cornucopia's website. A Horizon spokeswoman says the photos may have shown cows standing in mud after rain...