Word: trappings
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...sings as well. His self-created sound mixes folkish American rock with the luscious melodies of British pop. The songs revolve around themes of distance and intimacy, and Yorn refuses to fall into the cliche of lonely singer/songwriter. Instead he notices the failings and exhilarations of love, avoiding the trap of the hopeless romantic. Vocally, he could be described as a fusion of a modern rock Springsteen mixed with an accessible and melodic Lou Reed...
This high-energy trap fools lots of folks, not just kids. After all, our bellies don't add up calories to calculate when we should feel full; it seems to be more a question of the volume and composition of the food we eat. Consider which you would be more likely to do: reach for another chocolate-chip cookie after you've already finished three in a row or bite into another apple after you've polished off three apples? If you're like me, the cookies win hands down. Yet the average chocolate-chip cookie contains 5 calories...
...they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...
...they all fell into what's become a familiar Net trap: aggressively looking for "eyeballs," or Web-cruising customers, but ignoring the bottom line. Following Yahoo!'s lead, they offered services for free, hoping that a big number of subscribers would eventually bring in ad revenue. But advertising is a thin market in China?total spending online is well under $80 million, compared with $6 billion in the U.S.?and industry watchers say it will take years for China's online revenues to sustain even one portal...
...they don't adequately account for clouds. In a warmer world, more water will evaporate from the oceans and presumably form more clouds. If they are billowy cumulus clouds, they will tend to shade the planet and slow down warming; if they are high, feathery cirrus clouds, they will trap even more heat...