Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result in a kind of geological weather system in which iron particles precipitate out of solution and rain down toward the core in a continuous cycle that is comparable to evaporation and condensation...
...first chill of winter swept across South Africa last week, a few white families braved the weather to relax on King's Beach, a strip along the Indian Ocean in the eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth. Parents reclined under striped umbrellas as black maids took the children to play in the waves. Not far away, a colored (mixed race) man, his wife and two small children enjoyed a picnic on the sand. For a brief time last month, such racially mixed scenes were countenanced by law at Port Elizabeth, after the state Supreme Court struck down local city ordinances...
...perfect weather and stunning sights are not enough to explain this popularity, there may be another reason for the tourism explosion. "Let's not be coy," says Briton Charles Stanford, who is traveling through the country in a camper with his wife. "The exchange rate has a lot to do with it. Every week we're here, the lira improves." Three years ago the Turkish lira was about 600 to the dollar; today it hovers around 1,300. Pamela Douglas, 24, a Los Angeles student, has been sharing rooms at boardinghouses for 2,500 liras a night. At the current...
JUST how blindly have we marched toward today's exercises in Tercentenary Theater these past four years? To what extent has this institution heeded the lessons of its summer reading and endowed us with an education that will weather the enormous changes of the next 50 years...
Television coverage has developed a long way from its beginnings as a contingency for bad weather. In addition to the Science Center links, this year HVS is installing screens in Wadsworth House, Fay House at Radcliffe Yard, and the alumni information center, so latecomers seeking directions to Tercentenary Theater can see how much they have missed...