Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is something perverse about springtime in the former Yugoslavia: it is when men make war, not love. Now, as the cold weather eases in the fifth year of Balkan fighting, Serbs and Croats are unlimbering their guns for what American diplomats fear could turn into an all-out Balkan...
...longest flight in space shuttle history just got longer. With Florida socked in by stormy weather, Endeavor was unable to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center today. NASA is mulling a Saturday landing either at Kennedy or at Edwards Air Force Base in California. As of Saturday, Endeavor will have been in orbit for 16 1/2 days, surpassing the 14-day, 18-hour flight by Columbia last year. While weather at Kennedy is expected to improve only slightly by tomorrow, nearly perfect conditions are forecast for the Mojave Desert landing strip. NASA prefers Kennedy because it costs $1 million...
...case with submission to authority, humanity's interaction with the Weather, while alienating, also involves a degree of identity-grafting whereby aspects of individual subjectivity are objectified and transferred to the agent of power. Thus in extreme cold the activity of the subject-"freezing"-becomes a description of the weather itself. 3 This process, for which Pierce (1986) coined the problematic term "(me)teorology," is the central concern of this essay...
Official Course Description: Weather 101 explores the weather fluctuations most people feel necessary to talk about all the time. It is an introduction on how to incorporate weather into any uncomfortable situation where no one has anything to say. This course also discusses topics of how to make weather small talk relatively interesting. also features frequent guest lecturers from people who are over 100 years...
Instructor: One third of respondents comment on the easy nonacademic portrayal of weather by Willard Scott. A handful find his presentations to be devoid of any meaning, and find the over 100 year old lecturers to be difficult to understand...