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...Thursday morning the early light is wrapped in haze, the grass is wet, the half-risen sun casts great splotches of shadows on the front lawns. It is going to be a scorcher. The traffic, bemoaned by the woman on Atlantic Avenue, redoubles by the hour. Official cars flash red and white headlights and roll through...
...Lately, the FDA has become a wet blanket that threatens to stifle the flame of biotech innovation," Weld said...
Sports are important and encrusted in custom, a different color jersey for each one. In the summer term a student is either a "wet bob" (a rower) or a "dry bob" (a cricketer). Some sports are unique to the school, like the Wall Game, in which it is virtually impossible to score because the players are huddled in a permanent, muddy scrum against the wall. The last goal was recorded in 1909. Uniforms are complicated. There are variations on the famous black swallowtail coat. Seniors who belong to Pop, an elite self-elected group of academic and sport leaders, have...
Underlying all these outbreaks is the same Darwinian mechanism: unusual weather such as dry spells in wet areas or torrential rains in normally dry spots tends to favor so-called opportunistic pests--rodents, insects, bacteria, protozoa, viruses--while making life more difficult for the predators that usually control them. Episodes of extreme weather are routinely followed by outbreaks of plagues, both old and new. Among the most recent examples...
...much things had changed. "I wrote down a list of 50 things that swimmers have today that we didn't, everything from starting blocks to weights to suits. You should have seen our suits, with their little ruffled skirts. And they were made of wool. Imagine what wet wool feels like against your skin...