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...what about the Hurricane Katrina debacle? An act of God, right? Not really. When the storm raced toward New Orleans in late August 2005, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration feared the worst. For years they had been warning the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversaw the city's 350 miles of levees, that its system was inadequate. The scientists wanted the Corps to revise the Standard Project Hurricane, a model that determines how extensive the levees should be. For instance, the Corps did not consider the tendency of soil to sink over time, and it excluded...
...that all his pictures are blockbusters. Since The Perfect Storm in 2000, only his Ocean's (Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen) capers have topped $100 million at the domestic box office. But at 48, Clooney--handsome and affable, with a wit that can deftly cut as it charms--is surely the modern idea and ideal of stardom. Whereas other celebrities seem tortured by the public attention their work earns them, he positively bathes in it. Remember what Mel Brooks as Louis XVI proclaimed in History of the World, Part I? "It's good to be the King." Clooney must think...
...left much of the country without power or clean water. The low-pressure system also wiped out broad swaths of crops, leaving 10,000 people in need of food aid. Officials fear that the death toll will climb as rescuers search for the missing; President Mauricio Funes called the storm's damage "incalculable...
Quest can fly above that storm. David Voetmann, along with aircraft designer Tom Hamilton, hatched the idea for the company in 1998. A former pilot who flew relief and medical-evacuation missions for a host of organizations in Africa, Voetmann realized in the '80s that someone had to develop a new bush utility plane, since refurbishing engines of old models like the Beaver was no longer cost-efficient. So he partnered with Hamilton and began tapping on the doors of nontraditional investors: missionary-aviation organizations. His hope was that they would provide seed money in exchange for Kodiaks at cost...
FlyBy has gotten wind of the latest undertaking of The WTF Republic, the band of self-described revolutionaries (class of 2013) who released an email and statement calling for all Harvard students to organize under them as an alternative to the UC. Tonight, the WTF Republic will storm Sever and "make it known that we will not sit idly by while a disorganized, meaningless organization mucks up campus politics...