Word: sudden
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...seaweed-eating fish. Still, the reefs that surrounded the island looked healthy. Why? The answer, says the Smithsonian's Jackson, is sea urchins, which are also herbivores and which temporarily filled in for the missing fish. In 1983, however, the urchins succumbed to a mysterious disease. All of a sudden Jamaica's reefs crashed. With no urchins to crop back the seaweed, Jamaica's corals, once considered the jewels of the Caribbean, were soon smothered by a vegetative thicket...
...Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden the floor falls through...
...sudden, they might start thinking playoffs and maybe even Super Bowl again. On the other hand, if they lose, with San Francisco, Miami and Green Bay all still on the schedule, the prospect of a post-season looks bleak...
...game offered supporters and critics alike a look of the NCCA's new overtime rule, which gives each team a chance to score in a non-sudden death, untimed overtime session. The Lions won the coin toss and scored on 12-yard touchdown pass to senior wide-out David Ramirez...
...injunction. At this fall's Radcliffe Convocation, I once again was lectured on the values of experimentation, when Gish Jen '77 reminded the audience of the magic of flexibility, the excitement of explotation. This time, I heeded these words not for their seeming platitude, but instead for their sudden truth, I am nearing the end of my four years, yet am still pursuing many of the same goals which I brought with me into Harvard Yard that first September afternoon...