Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington atmospheric physicist Edward Sarachik suggested that people most affected by the ENSO cycle--not just farmers and fishermen but also commodities traders, water-resource managers and insurance underwriters--should look at a prediction the way a savvy gambler might look at a set of dice that turns up snake eyes more frequently than expected. "You wouldn't want to bet $100 on the first throw," he notes. "But if you bet $1 on a hundred throws, you'll come out ahead...
Opening with an older song "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song," Darnielle rapidly plunged into a sequence of five newer songs. Highlighting a primate theme, he offered "Baboon," an album he claimed to have written the previous afternoon...
What distinguishes Dr. Weil from the snake-oil charlatans is the credibility he has earned by using the best that both traditional and alternative medicine have to offer. As a pediatrician trained more traditionally, I find extreme behavior on both sides--from the scientifically trained M.D. who treats every runny nose with an antibiotic to the naturopathically trained chiropractor who battles against immunization, the best preventive medicine that science has given us. The quality of health care will improve as more middle-ground physicians are trained and enter practice. RONALD S. GRANT, M.D. Tucson, Ariz...
...downfall is frozen dairy products. Ice cream is my favorite food group. It is to me as ambrosia was to the Roman deities. Had I been Eve, man would never have been evicted from the Garden of Eden. Fruit doesn't do anything for me. However, had the snake tempted me with an ice cream sundae, I would have been a goner--even if the Garden had had a polar address...
...Francisco: Pat Barnes, QB, Cal. They probably considered QB Jake "the Snake" Plummer of Arizona State, who reminds people of Joe Montana...