Word: weather
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...Also: I didn't want to waste one of my seven reasons on this, but the weather was a factor in the picture's success. Last weekend, for a spring change, it was nice out. People wanted to go to the movies, and 300 was waiting for them...
...predict with confidence: global climate change will disrupt ecosystems and animal populations. He offers a colorful example of the quandary that the most vulnerable of the earth’s animals would face. “Now there are some organisms like polar bears that live in cold weather, and they’re just screwed,” he said. “What do you do if you’re adapted to a world that has a lot of sea ice, and the sea ice disappears...
...granted him a reputation larger than the stack of Harvard football schedules brandishing his image or his building-sized poster adorning the side of Blodgett pool. However, for the past couple of weeks, Dawson vanished from the public eye, and apparently from Harvard itself.Foregoing the cold and unpredictable Cambridge weather for somewhere slightly warmer, Dawson went to Sarasota, Florida, preparing, and hoping, to further his football career with an invitation to the NFL combine.“I spent a good amount of time training with other NFL hopefuls,” Dawson said. “I was definitely...
...continental shelf. But the site is still a two-day sea voyage from the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Tourism regulations prohibit more than 100 people from gathering in the same place at the same time, so the race start must be staggered. And weather and course conditions are always unpredictable - as they are for all Antarctic expeditions. One year, in fact, the weather was so poor that runners didn't even get to the start line: The sea was too rough to allow a landing. They raced on the ship that had carried them south...
Ambassador Peter W. Galbraith ’73 predicted that Iraq would not be able to weather the ongoing civil war and would eventually split along sectarian lines in a speech before an audience of sympathetic Fulbright alumni at the Kennedy School of Government on Saturday. Though the event on Saturday was a gathering of Fulbright alumni and current scholars, Galbraith—who was never a member of the Fulbright program—was invited because of his support for the program during his 14 years as a senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...