Word: breakneck
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Since its last meeting five years ago, the IPCC says it has discovered immutable evidence that human beings are the root cause of global warming, and that we've been particularly harmful in the past 50 years, spewing exhaust and industrial toxins into the atmosphere at breakneck speed...
...Most classes and laboratories took place jointly in Harvard classrooms, often necessitating breakneck bike trips from our distant location in the Radcliffe Quad...
...this took money, however, and the economy was not then performing at today's breakneck pace. With Bok's departure, a new president, one who would be able to fill the University's dwindling coffers, was needed. From the ranks of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation emerged Rudenstine...
...cosmoses are like the baby universes Hawking and Guth hatch inside black holes. The difference is that unlike the details of what transpires in black holes, the evidence for or against inflation could be settled within just a few years. If the universe did inflate, that brief period of breakneck expansion should have left a telltale pattern imprinted on the radiation left over from the Big Bang, which still echoes around the universe in the form of electromagnetic microwaves. Two satellites set to be launched later this year are sensitive enough to detect such a pattern...
...neurologist who can repair brain damage and bad attitudes with a computer and molecular smart bombs. An ingenious bio-tech love triangle ensues, as does the hunt for a sadistic killer with an acetylene torch. Then it's back to the top of Lady Liberty for the climax, a breakneck update of the finale to Hitchcock's 1942 tingler, Saboteur...