Word: swathes
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...what role would volcanoes have had to play in all this? A big one, argues Gerta Keller, a Princeton University paleontologist, who recently made her case at a meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geologists have known for centuries that a swath of central India was buried by a series of eruptions at around the time of the dinosaurs' demise. The remains of the flows, known as the Deccan Traps, still cover some 193,000 sq. mi. (500,000 sq km). The eruptions would have poured carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide into the air, triggering runaway global warming...
...chaotic night indeed, where “something of a melee”—as one police spokesman described it—broke out at the HSBSE after-party in Lowell. More than 20 police cruisers swarmed the scene, blocking a swath of Mt. Auburn Street. There, a police department’s German shepherd barked at students returning from nights of costumed revelry...
...piece on emoticons: I mean, it just feels like an American tradition to take it all off for Halloween. I’m pretty sure women in the Victorian era took a break from demanding the vote to hitch up their petticoats and show a saucy swath of ankle, paving the way for their liberated granddaughters to pay for their own $34.99 Vixen Pirate costumes from Party City. I guess reducing women to pneumatic parodies of actual people with Y chromosomes—Sexy policeman! Sexy fireman! Sexy lumberjack!—is bad and all...but for every embarrassing...
...year—at no cost. It was a successful idea that both popularized the pub and, more importantly, promoted camaraderie amongst the senior class. Yet this year, the program was dramatically changed in ways that will inhibit senior class bonding. While last year a large swath of the senior class participated in Upper Hall, this year only 100 subscriptions were sold in addition to eight special mugs reserved for class marshals and 48 for House Committees to distribute at their discretion. To make bad go to worse, the mugs were sold on noon last Wednesday—smack...
...imagine a world without conflict and will not prepare the world for peace. The university will have capitulated to the think-tank. Nor is the study of war a small and specialized field best left to the military academies. It goes far beyond mere tactics and covers a broad swath of knowledge that touches many conventional disciplines from political science and international relations to economics, sociology, anthropology, and public policy. Harvard has a handful of war scholars and courses directly related to the subject. But the topic is so vast and important to our nation’s immediate...