Word: stream
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...this threat is a recently discovered vulnerability of the Gulf Stream. The current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...
...cursing, nudity and an innovative, nonmilitary use of an infrared camera. But it's better than The Real World because the drama is compressed and simplified. You don't have to film an argument about who stuck a finger in the peanut-butter jar when there's a constant stream of teens hooking up poolside...
...hundred ducks for her biology thesis, she ordered 15 duck eggs on the internet, and spent the next 28 days rotating the eggs. The adorable babies pecked their way out of their eggs and started walking around. Our room turned into a campus petting zoo, with a steady stream of pet-deprived students from all over campus peering in to “see the babies,” including the nightly swims the 15 baby ducks took in our shower...
...displays the same affinity for sharing her thoughts with the world, though she goes beyond a mere mundane description of her daily events. Reading Liu’s weblog, one not only gets a glimpse into her life, but is treated to the stream of universal profundities that gush from her with some regularity...
...foreign policy and security expenditures in the Middle East are not exclusively due to a desire for a continuous stream of oil, as some leftists would like to believe. But it would be extremely difficult to rationalize that it has no effect. There are other dictators around the world who are as callous as Saddam Hussein, and by whose demise an American president would gain more. Fidel Castro, for instance, has one of the most extensive hate clubs of any person in the United States—particularly among the easily swayed voters of South Florida, a crucial state...