Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warm water created by the south-moving ripples created a heat wave that sent residents of Santiago flocking to nearby beaches in the middle of winter, while the north-moving waves triggered a sharp rise in ocean temperatures off California and Washington State, delighting sportfishermen by attracting tropical species like marlin to usually frigid waters...
...Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached bone...
...terrific). But what's truly surprising about the first track on DiFranco's new album, which is also the title song, is just how good-natured and downright jaunty it is. After the first verse, DiFranco lets loose a country-and-western "yee-haw" and a wave of gentle ska-infused horns kicks in. It's an early signal: this is an album that refuses to be boxed...
...nervous glances. The women, gathered in small circles and slowly peeling off one piece after another, smile hesitantly at each other, their arms folded across their chests in symbolic gestures of modesty. A group of saucer-eyed first-years stands at the edges, fully clothed, staring, violating. I wave them away with curses I've never used before, but they stay anyway, chuckling and looking to each other for reassurance, emboldened by swelling ranks behind them. I laugh--at least I've made them feel some shred of shame...
...doubling up," Law refers to the mostly first-year and sophomore physics concentrators who take two classes from the Physics 15a, "Introductory Mechanics and Relativity," Physics 16, "Mechanics and Special Relativity," Physics 15b, "Introductory Magnetism," Physics 15c, "Wave Phenomena," and Physics 143a, "Quantum Mechanics I" sequence in the same semester...