Word: slide
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...team, the Crimson had the ECAC top defense, giving up only 2.73 goals per game. A late-season offensive slide helped give top scoring honor to Clarkson, whose 4.61 average beat out Harvard's 4.32. The Crimson also tied for the lead in shorthanded goals with seven, matching Colgate's total...
...like that. "It" can't be turned on and off like a light switch. "It" is more like a nuclear reactor--a long buildup to full power and a longer slide to shutdown. Anything goes wrong, and it's bad news...
...Colorado Rockies, this has been a season of slides. So far, this winter is shaping up as a record breaker. There have already been 2,260 avalanches, some of them powerful enough to topple full-grown trees. The reason for the surge is simple: big storms have dumped record amounts of snow throughout the Mountain West. Too much snow falling in too short a period sets up the slopes for a slide. The most recent avalanches, for instance, occurred in the wake of a storm that dumped as much as 8 ft. of the white stuff...
Once conditions are right, it doesn't take much to trigger a slide. And usually, there is very little warning. "Sometimes you hear a crack like thunder," says U.S. Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
Heart muscle contracts when muscle filaments slide by each other, thereby shortening the muscle, and form cross-bridges to "lock" the filaments in place. Gwathmey reports in a recent issue of Circulation that a deficient heart possesses the same ability to contract as a normal muscle, but that the rate of forming cross-bridges is decreased...