Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tell that to the weather-mongering media, which of course is nothing if no one is watching. Overcautious governors may have been a little sheepish when Floyd turned out to be less than billed, but the news outlets had every reason to feel proud: Floyd was on the lips of an entire nation, and the ratings were colossal even when Floyd was not. When the hurricane passed Florida by on Tuesday, the Weather Channel logged a record 2.5 million viewing households; its web site, www.weather.com, scored a record 23 million visits. The damage peaked when Floyd hit North Carolina early...
...England, 'wicked' has resurfaced as an intensifier or term of approval, which for someone my age is really weird," she said. "'Sketchy,' when applied to a new acquaintance, is definitely not a compliment--though what it is is not clear to me. My students tell me on the DL, or 'down low,' that I'm really random. Whatever...
...Hurricane Floyd turns more than 2 million Americans into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part...
...their consumption of gasoline," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. Even the limited cutbacks ? when measured against the scale of the crisis ? in greenhouse gas emissions envisaged in the landmark Kyoto accord signed in 1997 was rejected 95-0 by the Senate. After all, no legislator wants to tell his or her voters to get rid of their SUVs. "So instead of handling environmental problems, the White House is forced to spend its time figuring out how to handle Congress, where a large group of politicians is committed to parochial concerns in order to stay in office," says Dowell. "They...
...Dolores Huerta Elementary School in Norwalk, Calif., Juan Carlos Ledezma's third-grade class was visited by Amanda Donohue and Antonio Garcia, two Whittier College students who had come to tell the roomful of 10-year-olds all about their college. The Whittier pair also invited the kids to visit the campus and to stay in touch with them and other Whittier undergrads who could answer questions ranging from what the food is like to how easy it is to make friends at college. It was, plain and simple, a recruiting mission. "By letting current students tell their stories," says...