Word: weather
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...often pokes through. We know - how could we not in these days of blanket coverage? - that even the greatest stars have faults. Warne epitomizes this sad fact better than most. His off-field antics sometimes seem lifted from a soap opera script: fined for giving a bookmaker information about "weather conditions"; suspended for using a banned drug that can mask steroid use; divorced after a series of lurid extramarital affairs. Little wonder that Warne's early teammates nicknamed him Hollywood. He is, noted cricket writer Peter Roebuck recently, "an unusual blend of immaturity and insight...
...dying - and all of it points to a warmer world. Spring ice that the bears rely on as fishing platforms has been breaking up about three weeks earlier than it used to. Though polar bears don't hibernate, they do retreat to dens in the winter to escape bad weather. When they emerge, they badly need to replenish their fat supplies, and slashing three weeks off the dining schedule does not help. Scientists who track bear populations report that fewer cubs are surviving into adulthood - never mind the ones that aren't getting born at all - and those adults that...
...been released from jail, four years early. "Hello, English-language journalist," he said, using the name they often called me. "I am out of jail now." I told him I was very glad - and then didn't know what to say next. Filling the silence, Sun commented on the weather in his Shandong village. It was chilly, he said, but not as cold as it had been in prison...
...maybe Iraq will melt by 2040); almost make out what a teenager with studs in her lips is whining into her cellphone (is there such a term, among young people, as "shazbot"?); almost make out the announcement of what is causing the latest extension of our flight delay (either "weather" or "whatever"). The people in the news and the people droning and losing their minds around me here are beginning to run together...
...estimates on the stickers - even while real-world driving conditions across the U.S. changed over the past 22 years. The new calculations will include factors such as high speeds, aggressive acceleration, stop-and-go traffic, the use of air conditioning (which increases fuel consumption), as well driving in cold weather, which also reduces mileage...