Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great extinctions, especially the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, were caused by the effects of giant comets or asteroids smashing into the earth. The impacts, they suggest, spewed debris into the atmosphere, obscuring the sun, causing temperatures to drop and bringing on a long "winter" that killed much of the life on earth. But, at least for the dinosaur-extinction theory, there is a missing link: no one has yet discovered the huge 65 million-year-old crater that such a collision would have left...
Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
South African divestment activism might be at a temporary lull at Harvard, but at other campuses across the country, sparks continue to fly during the cold winter months...
Dartmouth College continues to weather its winter of discontent as charges of racism, bigotry, and inadequate leadership rock the small Ivy League campus located in the sleepy village of Hanover, New Hampshire...
...Winter Carnival last weekend, it was easy...