Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most recently an eight nation group called the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment—mostly agree that the release of carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the atmosphere has caused a greenhouse effect like never before, resulting in not only increased temperatures, but also in increased frequency of extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts...
...within their borders-and to invest in their public-health systems. We've come a long way since the secrecy of SARS, but too many countries still act as if an infectious disease is a source of shame that has to be kept inside its boundaries. But like the weather, infectious disease doesn't respect international borders...
...this time, when they were allowed to move into their own homes, they were still subject to constant surveillance, beatings and, occasionally, torture. For example, according to Jenkins, in the summer of his first year teaching, the short-sleeve shirts he began to wear to class with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife...
...Rescue efforts were made almost impossible by blocked roads, washed-out bridges and the storms that succeeded Winnie. (President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo tried visiting Real by helicopter on Wednesday but had to cancel her trip because of the bad weather.) In Real, a three-story building at a beach hotel complex that was being used as an evacuation center collapsed, killing 114 and leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan...
...always felt tremendously supported even when I was in bad weather or making mistakes. He was never passing judgment, he was just there to just to try to help figure things out, “ Bok said...