Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, triggered an international furor when he decreed that in his prestigious establishment Pluto would no longer be listed as a planet. Henceforth, it would be considered just another ball of ice in the Kuiper Belt, a swarm of debris orbiting the sun out beyond Neptune. He was on firm scientific ground: many professional astronomers have been leaning that way for years. But people evidently had a soft spot for the runt of the planetary litter. Almost overnight, Tyson became the Grinch Who Stole Pluto...
...kids when I’m rushing to a class that started five minutes ago. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve literally had to jump into traffic to avoid getting run over by a swarm of “I Love Boston”-sweatshirt-wearing, stupidly-grinning visitors from Podunk who take over an entire sidewalk. I’ve had it with the guy setting up a 15-foot-wide tripod in the middle of a gate to photograph the Science Center. And the Barker Center. And Memorial...
...before intermission, swatting a lofted shot from forward Cara-Lynn Lopresti into the net from the right post. Harvard could not get any momentum going and trailed 3-0 at the half, already allowing more goals in a game than it had all year. The Blue Devils continued to swarm on offense, and Stopford struck again quickly once play resumed, doubling up with an assist from midfielder Laura Suchowski a little over four minutes into the half. Midfielders Julie Tromp and Marian Dickinson wrapped up the scoring for Duke, tallying goals at the 50:19 and 66:29 mark, respectively...
...didn't take long for The College Dropout to develop coattails. Fashion-wise, you may have been blinded recently by the swarm of pink Polo shirts, while on the charts, West's friends John Legend, an R&B singer with a University of Pennsylvania degree, and Common, a whip-smart and austere Chicago rapper, both had sales spikes. West's Late Registration should push things further. "I didn't want to play it boring and safe," says West while sitting in the balcony of a 14th century church in Prague, one of the locations he hand-picked for the video...
...southern edge of the Sahara in a belt of dry savanna known as the Sahel. In good years, farmers there grow enough food for their families plus a bit extra that they can sell or store away. But the past couple of years have been tough. Last year a swarm of locusts and poor rains ruined most of the crop, forcing the people of Niger to dig into their reserves. The next crops won't be ready until later this year. Until then, thousands of people will go hungry. "Whole families are suffering because of a desperate shortage of food...