Word: centralization
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...theorists say the phenomenon explains the "la ni?as" of the past two winters, which begin when cold Pacific waters wash up on the shores of Central America. For the current year, meteorological predictions fall in line with this theory, as February forecasts call for an unusually cold and wet stretch for the northern states of the U.S., and warm, dry weather down south. But New Yorkers shouldn't buy that new down comforter just yet. The entire PDO theory is still fairly new (scientists first proposed it three years ago), and not even its supporters are fully convinced...
...tuned in in the first place simply because of all those zeroes the show gives away. "The drama on television at this point is so pitifully synthetic that the only real drama is on the quiz show," says Ben Stein, the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only for 5,000 bucks." On Greed, one contestant fainted. That's good television...
...museum has a collection of 1920s central European abstraction, including works by Paul Klee, El Lissitzy and Wassily Kandinsky...
More importantly, Reifenberg says, the Rockefeller Center serves as a central location for information about Latin American resources at Harvard...
...central motivations of most of the other characters, with the notable exception of Aaron the Moor (Harry Lennix), are more obvious. Tamora is (and is repeatedly represented as) a lioness, bestial in her pursuit of pleasure and fiercely protective of her young. Saturnius, the young emperor foppishly and petulantly embodied by the fine stage actor Alan Cumming, simply seeks to protect his authority and to be loved. Tamora's two younger sons (Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Matthew Rhys) are simply bored and callous, devoted to violence and provocation out of sheer idiocy and for want of a better option...