Word: showers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the mirror. What stared back was . . . was . . . was it Thomagata, the one-eyed, four-eared Colombian god of thunder, chastened by his encounter with the sun-god Bochica? Or was it Chonchonyi, the revolting, bloodsucking god of Chile with the long, flapping ears? Shuddering, I stepped into the shower. As the hot, healing liquid bathed my shoulders, I felt like . . . like . . . like Kappa, the solemn little Japanese water demon, renowned for his punctilious manners. Or perhaps like Ahto, the water god of the ancient Finns, who lived under a sea cliff. (But then perhaps not. Ahto's beard...
...outside his window. He tunes in radio station KFYR in Bismarck for the weather reports. Day after monotonous day the news is the same. Clear skies, or thin empty clouds, temperatures already in the 70s or above and not a trace of dew on the land. When a slight shower came a few days ago, the baked land and superheated air seemed to cause the droplets to vanish as fast as they fell. A ferocious drought feeds itself...
Donald A. Norman is a noted psychologist, yet like many people he switches on the wrong lights, scalds himself in the shower and stands dumb before the mysteries of VCRs. The culprits, he says, are designers who fail to provide visual cues to the operation of a host of gadgets that influence the quality of life. A look at some things that don' t work and some that...
...weather report is not encouraging. Says National Weather Service Meteorologist Lyle Alexander: "We're not looking forward to a great deal of shower activity." The spring wheat crop in the northern Great Plains could be salvaged if rains come in the next week or two, but a large high-pressure ridge makes that unlikely. Crops are surviving now on moisture stored in the soil. "There's about two minutes left in the game," says County Agent Carl Wilbourn of Leflore County, Miss. "But there's still a chance...
Whether it is houses, labs or offices, the nation's oldest and richest university has a multitude of benefits it can shower on those whom it deems worthy of a Harvard chair. For tenured professors who accept Harvard's call, Cambridge can indeed be the setting for a wonderful life...