Word: unexpectedness
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But a decade later, deep-diving submersibles scanning the midocean ridge near the Galapagos Islands stumbled on something totally unexpected: plumes of toxic water spewing from cracks in the sea floor. Huddled around these awful oases were entire ecosystems made up of hundreds of hitherto unknown species, ranging from bright...
The unexpected postponement stems from a lack of clarity regarding “what a modern school of journalism ought to be,” Bollinger wrote.
The first hint that all was not well came late in 1999, when the monitoring board detected an unexpected increase in the risk of blood clots and heart attacks in women on combination-hormone therapy. Although the absolute risk was small, it came as a shock. Most doctors believed that...
MIDDLE EAST Mass Curfew Fails to Bring Security to Israel Two islamic jihad suicide bombers blew themselves up in a non-Jewish Tel Aviv neighborhood, killing three bystanders and injuring more than 40 others. Earlier, eight people were killed and 20 wounded when an Israeli bus carrying settlers was ambushed...
He is not known for remorse. P. O'Neill exists only as a nom de guerre, but as the signature on every terse statement issued by the Irish Republican Army over decades of conflict, his name is recognized and feared across Ireland. Occasionally O'Neill has admitted "regret" over unintended...