Word: surround
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instincts haven't left him. In one arena, he appears eager to move ahead. As he talks about the ethics scandals that are beginning to surround the Clinton White House like dandelions, Gingrich sounds once again like the back-bench Congressman who came to national attention waging the war that brought down one of his predecessors as Speaker. "These people are dramatically more dishonest and more systematically covering up than anyone in American history," Gingrich said in the final days of the campaign. "It is breathtaking...
Many questions surround this team after it lost three of its top five scorers, but one thing is for sure: senior All-American candidate Mike Harder (23-31-54) is back, and Hobey Baker should look...
...being sold as a cure-all on the basis of the flimsiest scientific evidence. Like human-growth hormone and melatonin, two other drugs being promoted as antiaging compounds, DHEA is a medically active chemical with real value that has piqued the interest of mainstream scientists. But the claims that surround DHEA--that it can restore sexual vigor, prevent cancer and heart disease, and add decades to your life--run far ahead of the science...
...earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere protects the earth by deflecting most of the solar wind around the planet the way a windshield deflects air around a car. Still, untold trillions of charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. The result: an aurora...
...most violent space storms of all occur when magnetic field lines in the solar wind connect with those that surround the earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada...