Word: shade
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...models still aren't perfect. One major flaw, agree critics and champions alike, is that they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
Raju and Sheru shuffle about looking for a damp spot in the shade. It's hot, the flies are bothering them and they're bored. Unemployment is no fun for a performing bear...
...known in the motor-home industry as converters, such as Marathon Coach or Liberty Coach, packs a remarkable apartment into the shell instead of fitting it with seats. The electronics mimic those of a space station. When the bus is parked and the time comes to picnic in the shade, the driver presses a button, and a large awning unfurls and extends outward from the roof. If the wind kicks up, sensors detect danger and refurl the awning...
...Allen Iverson has when he steps onto a basketball court. She's dressed way past the nines--she's hovering around the elevens--in purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude-filled promos. "Who's that girl?" Eve asks. "I'm that motherf_____ girl!" When the session concludes, Eve softens...
Even where green fervor is of a paler shade, corporations are viewing the potential for global regulation as a business risk they need to consider. Witness Claiborne Deming, Murphy's CEO, who doesn't see the science of global warming as solid enough yet to cry havoc. But Deming hears shareholders clamoring and the bureaucrats buzzing. Someone may ask his company to put more than a quarter in that box when it wants to exhale more than its allotted amount...