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...spent but elated. As always, you, our valued catalog customers, were never far from our thoughts--especially the evening we lingered over jasmine tea with a Mahayana Buddhist monk at the Four Winds Monastery, perched precariously above a roaring tributary of the Ganges. As we sipped to the rhythmic whirl of prayer wheels, I in my all-cotton, breathable Sahib Gear[TM] Punting Pants, Jan in her wind-resistant Amelia Earhart Aviator's Bra, we couldn't help noticing the elegant saffron robe that enveloped our host. The rustic fabric, simple and unfussy, draped beautifully--perfect, as Jan remarked...
...Occupying the top of the social pecking order in this modern-day Middlemarch was the defendant himself, living a life that would be the envy of any 19th century man of leisure: pleasant days at the country club filled with golf and card playing, nights lost to the social whirl, gentlemanly "work" that consisted of getting paid to play even more golf. Unfailingly gracious, our hero would receive representatives of the striving classes with equanimity. But Denise Brown, for one, discovered the perils of social climbing when she was so unrefined as once to suggest that Simpson was neglecting...
...80øF or more. The warm, humid air above the ocean surface would tend to rise anyway, and when a low-pressure region drifts by, it's like taking the lid off a steaming pot. The air rushes upward, dumping its moisture and energy, which forces the winds to whirl ever faster. Meanwhile, down at the surface, more warm air rushes in to replace what's risen, and it shoots upward in turn. After a few days of this self-sustaining process, a low-pressure tropical depression can escalate into a tropical storm and then, if the winds reach...
...element is the spinning disk. As a cloud of gas and dust collapses under gravity, it spins faster and faster, like a figure skater pulling his arms in against his body as he goes into a rapid whirl. The accelerating rotation, in turn, makes the cloud flatten out into a pancake, with the highest density in the center, where the star starts to form. Unlike a solid disk -- a CD, for example -- this one rotates faster in the center than at the edges. The star, pulling in more matter as it grows more massive, should spin the fastest...
...council sponsored "skating night" this comingSaturday (from 7-9 at Bright Hockey Center) wasalso passed. Skates will be provided for up toeighty students, who can whirl around the rink tomusic at no charge...