Word: solarization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...send E-mail, in care of porter@christdesert.org Remote as they may seem, the brothers of Christ in the Desert are plugged into the Internet. Using electricity generated by a dozen solar panels and a fragile data link through a single cellular phone, the monks have developed a heavily trafficked Benedictine home page and started a new business designing and maintaining other people's Websites. The order's work has even caught the eye of the Holy See. Last month Webmaster Brother Mary Aquinas flew to Rome for consultations and to lend a hand building what the Vatican hopes will...
...genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected from the Earth. Like Galileo, he risks ecclesiastical wrath by rejecting the belief that fossils were deposited on mountaintops by Noah's flood (because, he argues, a deluge would have scattered them helter-skelter rather than leaving them in orderly assemblages). And though his mind-set remains medieval, he demonstrates...
FARMERS' ALMANAC Forecast: The slightly younger rival publication says that "virtually the entire country will be subjected to stormy and unseasonably cold conditions for the upcoming winter, even in the so-called 'Sun-Belt' areas..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
...FARMER'S ALMANAC Forecast: "Snowfall is expected to be above normal in much of the eastern and central parts of the country...Snowfall in the Rocky Mountains and Northwest will generally be below normal..." Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...
HAGERS-TOWN TOWN AND COUNTRY ALMANACK Forecast: The local Maryland annual foresees a season "shorter, colder, but less snowy than last winter" but still calls for a higher-than-average 61 in. of snow. Methodology: Solar activity and other variables...