Word: weatherly
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...year-round grind is definitely not for everyone. Families in cold-weather states generally refuse to break with their traditional summers off. Even in the Sunbelt, families with children in extracurricular activities tend to see YRE as disruptive. The staggered vacation times often clash with seasonal schedules for games and practice sessions. Nearly 200 parents in Oxnard lined up in the early-morning hours two years ago to be sure they could register their children in a conventional semester program. But despite such limitations, YRE has grown nationwide, from 243,000 pupils four years ago to 330,000 today...
...episode in the first show that best illustrates the philosophy behind American Almanac deals with long-term changes in the country's weather (outlook over the next few decades: a temperature rise between 3° and 7°). In another segment, Connie Chung explores how some prospective parents try to select the sex of their babies through laboratory tinkering. Yet an episode about Bijan, whose snooty clothing stores in Beverly Hills and New York City are open to clients by appointment only, is a puff job that Mudd gamely but unsuccessfully tries to tie in to Americans' desire to be distinct...
Sometimes one commits a rant to paper. That is almost always a mistake. A rant should be transient. It should blow away like sudden, violent weather...
...atmosphere has increased in the two centuries since the start of the industrial revolution. By some calculations, the extensive burning of oil and other fossil fuels has added to the shield of carbon dioxide around the earth, resulting in a heightened greenhouse effect that traps heat and changes weather patterns...
...wrong. In Her Own Image would have found a willing publisher if it had been written by someone without an influential spouse to her name. It has most of what blockbusters require these days: sex from the female perspective, an unfulfilled mother and her itchy daughters, and a sympathetic weather system that delivers up heat waves and thunderstorms whenever the plot requires them...