Word: winded
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Today, his boat chugs past the village of Pankyun, where most houses have been razed by the wind and the water, their occupants drowned or gone. Fishing boats have capsized or been grounded. One has been lifted 100 meters inland, so powerful was the surge of water. A dead baby floats face-down in water amid more putrefying livestock. Kalaylay...
...races no actual car was used; these magnificent set pieces are almost totally animated. The races aren't just 200 miles of left turns; the tracks are designed as crazy theme-park rides, with 360 loops, chasm-wide broken tracks, roads that wind around mountains and across rivers. The autos skid sideways and fly over other cars on stilts. In a reference to the Ben-Hur chariot race, they brandish hubcap spear hooks to disable their opponent's vehicle. And, since the rallies take place in Virtual World, there's no fretting about the waste of fuel. All of Speed...
...Green Dreams and Doubts How can you call geothermal power a fringe alternative energy source when it already produces more electricity than wind and solar technologies combined [April 28]? Geothermal has none of the drawbacks associated with wind, solar, nuclear, or clean coal. It is abundant, affordable, dependable, produces no emissions, generates no waste, and is not a blight on the landscape. Joseph Fuller, Las Cruces, New Mexico...
...take a chance at alienating me." Blagojevich stayed neutral. Illinois comptroller Dan Hynes was the presumptive favorite, the son of a former state senate president, longtime 19th-ward boss and close Daley ally. The AFL-CIO was gearing up for an early endorsement of the younger Hynes. Jones caught wind of the plans and called its president. "If you proceed in that direction, you lose me," Jones told her. The union backed off, giving him and Obama time to line up support from affiliates that had large and heavily black memberships--teachers, government employees and service workers...
...which made the race faster. Very squirrelly conditions.” “They weren’t very clean conditions or clean races,” Kharrazi added. “It’s tough to race in conditions like that, in any of the extremes. Wind is the most extreme condition for rowing. Heavy rain, snow, or intense heat is fine, when it comes to wind that’s the one thing that will keep us off the water, and we saw a lot of that.” In the varsity eight, Radcliffe...