Word: aurora
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...aurora borealis, a.k.a. the Northern Lights, appeared in skies across the country Monday night, freaking out people who thought the natural display was somehow terrorist related. The beautiful phenomenon is expected to last until tonight, although it has weakened in intensity in the time it has lasted...
...this way. When Mazzoleni brought Crothers in last year, he expected to play him right away. After sitting on the bench for three years behind Prestifilippo, Jonas was a bit of a question mark himself. And Crothers— who played junior hockey in Canada with the Aurora Tigers, where he was teammates with Harvard forward Dominic Moore—was a highly-touted young backstop...
...fitting, in an ironic sense, that BBC journalist Lucy Jago chose Kristian Birkeland for the subject of her first book. Birkeland unlocked the secrets of the aurora borealis, and it was the British that scoffed at Birkeland’s theories and dismissed his work in the early 1900s. The Northern Lights recounts Birkeland’s life-long journey through the still-fledgling fields of electromagnetism and solar astronomy. Jago’s book, although well-written and interesting, fails to rise to the level of “thrilling” that the publisher touts...
...thrilled to see scientists and doctors highlighted so prominently in a national magazine [AMERICA'S BEST, Aug. 20]. Too often they are overlooked, despite the fact that they make some of the greatest differences in our lives. CHRISTIE COLSTAD Aurora...
DIRTY WATER Each year animal and human feces contaminate pools, rivers, even fountains with Giardia, shigella and more. Part of Colorado's Aurora Reservoir was closed last week because of E. coli...