Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boom-and-bust hurricane cycles lasting decades have been well documented, the reasons for them remain obscure. That's not the case for individual storms, though. Atlantic hurricanes inevitably get their start in Africa, where hot, dry air overlying the Sahara desert collides with cooler, moister air over the sub-Saharan region known as the Sahel. Under normal conditions, the collision produces eddies of low-pressure air that drift out over the ocean, where storm clouds begin to form. Most of the time, the clouds simply dump their load of rain and dissipate...
...saved from slapstick by his desire to find relief and wisdom in his past. He comes closest in a conversation with a 100-year-old man who once delivered vegetables in Mickey's old neighborhood. Getting the spirit of the aged on paper has become something of a sub-specialty for Roth--notably in Patrimony, his tender and unsparing account of his father's life and death. The encounter between Sabbath and the centenarian is reminiscent of the earlier memoir...
...carpeted with so-called manganese nodules, potato-size chunks of manganese mixed with iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken Soviet sub. Now several mining companies are drawing up plans to do with more up-to-date equipment what Hughes only pretended...
...Seawolf Submarine. The problems speak for themselves. Perhaps more blatantly than the other measures, this nuclear sub reveals the vast inadequacies of Cold War technology in dealing with today's security needs. What, in the absence of Red October, do we propose to hunt? The value of such an investment can only be in its ability as a deterrent; this, in turn, can only work effectively if there is a clarified target. During the Cold War, such a vehicle made excellent sense; it could loom menacingly around the Soviet continent, ready for immediate deployment in the event of a security...
True, like everyone else in this country, Simpson is entitled to the best defense he can pay for. He just happens to be much richer than the average murder defendant -- hence the never-ending parade of big-name lawyers, sub-lawyers with DNA specialities, jury consultants, investigators and experts. Though exact figures are hard to come by, one person close to the case will reveal this much: Simpson has spent $100,000 on a jury consultant; Robert Shapiro's contract entitles him to $100,000 a month for 12 months; Johnnie Cochran Jr. is working for a large flat...