Word: umlaut
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...more serious note, the band will go down in history as one of the pioneers of the now infamous “heavy metal umlaut,” joining the ranks of Motörhead, Assück, Hüsker Dü and Blue Öyster Cult. Yet, all was not well in the kingdom of tough German punctuation; The Crüe era of sex, drugs and little rock and roll came to an end in the early ’90s with the departure of drummer and Playböy sugardaddy Tommy Lee. But the band...
...reason it did so is closely related to events that occurred that same autumn day, half a world away, at the Hague. Thousands of policymakers and scientists from all over the world had gathered, hoping to dot the i's, cross the zeds and umlaut the o's on the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The protocol was devised to curb the industrial emission of six gases, CO2 among them, that are slowly--actually quickly in geological terms--turning the earth into a hothouse. But no final accord was reached...