Word: whirlwind
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...keeping with Crichton’s characteristic style, the novel is a tangled web of romance and murder that takes readers on a whirlwind tour that hits Antarctica, the Solomon Islands, and countless less exotic destinations (including fair Cambridge). Hero John Kenner is an MIT professor who sets out to stop eco-terrorists from carrying out their nefarious plans...
Ironically, Summers’ ignorant comment might do more good for WGS than twenty years of advocacy on the part of WGS faculty. Besides drawing international attention, the “innate differences” comment has generated a whirlwind of discussion on campus about the status of women at Harvard and inspired the formation of two task forces to support women faculty and women in the engineering and sciences. If the University genuinely wants to improve the quality of life for female students and faculty and to recruit female professors, it must demonstrate its dedication to women?...
...epilogue to Journey into the Whirlwind, her shattering memoir of life in the Soviet Gulag, Evgenia Ginzburg wrote: "Can such things just happen and be done with, unattended by retribution?" The prison camps in North Korea are the Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together...
...pirates threaten to capture Mabel and her sisters—and Major General lies to spare them—Frederick is obliged to return to the pirate ship due to an unfortunate loophole in his contract. The remainder of the story unfolds in a whirlwind of action, honor and a final act of mercy...
...Herald found itself in a whirlwind of controversy after publishing graphic photographs of a bloody Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson student killed during Red Sox rioting in Boston. Any didactic dimension of the photos was lost on hordes of appalled readers. Though the paper later issued a next-day apology for this classless stunt, the damage had been done...