Word: spate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three acts: primaries, conventions and general elections. But the primaries are now grouped early in the season, while the hot dynamics of the electronic age reduce them, over a period of a decisive few weeks, to a blur of media impressions, a smearing of hot issues and a spate of mock-angry accusations in "debates" - by adults who hope to lead the nation - that the opponent's mother wears army boots. It is not all bad. The conventions - great countrywide pep rallies - will come in summer's heat, and the long campaign will subject both candidates to the kinds...
...mothers if they bring the infants within three days of birth and don't harm them. "We're just trying to prevent a desperate situation," Tyson says. "If you could have a healthy, bouncing baby as opposed to a dead infant, which one would you choose?" Indeed, after a spate of tragic "Dumpster baby" stories in the media, states from Alabama to California are choosing to debate and institute regulations that would allow women to "safely" abandon unwanted newborns...
...December, Commerce Secretary William Daley urged the President and Congress to create a national cyber-security center, in which private firms could exchange information on Internet security threats and strategize to prevent them. Following last week's spate of attacks against major web sites, it's an idea whose time has come - President Clinton endorsed the proposal Tuesday and asked Congress to rubber-stamp $9 million in funding. The creation of the center is an acknowledgment that the federal government is going to act more as jailkeeper than patrolman in policing the Internet. The major leads in the case...
...When a spate of e-vandalism disrupted several major Internet sites late last week, all eyes were on the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which was created last year to guard against such attacks. And over the weekend the NIPC announced that it already had a lead - a 20-year-old German college student/cyberpunk called Mixter was believed to be behind one of the three "smurf" attacks that caused the disruptions. Yet it wasn't so much the work of NIPC that led law-enforcement to Mixter as the efforts of a band of private cyber-detectives...
...those bundled-up northeasterners suffering from frostbitten noses: Get used to it, there could be decades more of winters just like this. NASA scientists believe the recent spate of unusual North American weather - from last year's droughts and hurricanes up through the current manic hot-and-cold spells in the northeast U.S. - will be with us for the next 20 to 30 years, due to a condition known as Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). Some researchers believe that two years ago we began entering the cool portion of a cycle in which the Pacific Ocean waters alternate between warm...