Word: weather
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...Willie and Joe were citizen soldiers. Before their incarnation, they had presumably been peaceful citizens. Now THEY WERE VETERANS OF WAR'S HARDSHIPS, ITS FILTH, DISCOMFORTS AND AGONIZING BOREDOM. War was bad weather and soaking clothes, cold rations and no letters from home. War was mile after mile of tramping, getting just as tired advancing as retreating, sleeping in barns, bathing in icy rivers, scrounging for small comforts ... War was watching their friends die, one after the other, day after day after day. War was learning the ecstasy of wiggling a little finger just to see it move and know...
...rock. With the album in the bag, Franz Ferdinand is ready to do what they enjoy most: perform live, and they don't care where. Set to play to 100,000 people at Edinburgh's New Year's Eve bash, the event was sabotaged by bad weather. But the band still made it to a local friend's flat to play to a party of 50 people. Gigs like that are going to be increasingly rare; this band won't stay underground for long...
...Guangdong--and maybe the rest of China. Roasted whole, braised or added to soups, the animal is considered a delicacy among many Chinese. One reason: civets are said to be full of yang, a heat-giving energy source that, according to traditional belief, helps people stay warmer in cold weather...
...Economics and demographics are influences, not causes. It is a great disservice to the poor to say they lose jobs and so become criminals," he says. "The penicillin for dealing with crime is cops. I thought I had already proved this. Criminologists who say it is economics or the weather or some other thing are crazy...
...recent dip in the weather has prompted dozens of students to post complaints over open e-mail lists about insufficient heating in the Houses...