Word: sizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surrounding the news of the Administration's cut in blocking groups size floats a nebulous idea: "House community." The Masters say that large blocking groups allow insulation from it; critics of the administration claim that understanding it is critical to thinking about randomized housing. Had more Undergraduate Council candidates made it a main issue of their platforms we might have had a semester's discussion of House community behind us. As it stands though, "House community" seems the sentiment everyone loves to love but hates to examine...
...improved Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCIA) has entered the political student-group game, touting its small size and easy access to visiting fellows...
...months the company's founders have crammed 10 people into an office the size of a dorm room. There are two computers on each of the four folding tables. The employees wear headphones to muffle the din of co-workers chattering inches away from them. MongoMusic's executives hold management meetings in the middle of the room. A network cable droops from the ceiling and disappears into a hole in the wall, connecting the office to a similar one next door, where eight more headphoned employees hunch over keyboards. When the door opens and a stranger walks in, everybody looks...
...began the week as a meteorological giant--one of the century's largest and most powerful Atlantic storms. If it seems as if hurricanes are getting stronger these days, that's because they are. After a 30-year lull, the U.S. is once again being visited by hurricanes the size of the ones that battered the Eastern seaboard in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Thanks to an unlucky confluence of events--warm Atlantic waters, brisk trade winds and some strange doings in the eastern Pacific--we're on the cusp of what could be an extended spell of very heavy...
...very big storm is in some ways its own worst enemy. "A hurricane has a noticeable cooling effect on the ocean," explains atmospheric scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Indeed, at a certain stage of its life cycle, a storm of a given size will stir up enough cold water to put a halt to its growth. At that point, scientists say, it has come into equilibrium. Maintaining that balance is especially hard, because if a hurricane stirs up too much cold water, it will weaken and die. This suicidal tendency no doubt helps account...