Word: clouding
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...that the 1918 flu pandemic - which started among soldiers and eventually killed as many as 40 million - was the result of swine flu (scientists now know it was in fact a strain of bird flu). Despite modern advances in microbiology, today's health officials still make decisions in a "cloud of uncertainty," Pennington says. "At the moment, our understanding of the current outbreak is similarly limited. For example, we don't yet understand why people are dying in Mexico but not elsewhere." (See pictures of bird...
...principle is common knowledge even in grammar school, you know it has long since crossed the line from theory to established fact. That's the case with dinosaur extinction. Some 65 million years ago - as we've all come to know - an asteroid struck the earth, sending up a cloud that blocked the sun and cooled the planet. That, in turn, wiped out the dinosaurs and made way for the rise of mammals. The suddenness with which so many species vanished after that time always suggested a single cataclysmic event, and the 1978 discovery of a 112-mile, 65-million...
What made you an American icon despite a body of work smaller than that of actors who have been working for 40 years? John Houle, ST. CLOUD, MINN...
...Phlox (Mena Suvari), he and the couple go on all sorts of romps. Skinny-dipping, soccer with young children, crazy nights out on the town—Thurber presses the “summer” button again and again. Hours pass lounging at the abandoned “Cloud Factory,” Thurber’s lone and treacly nod to Pittsburgh’s industrial past.But it’s not all fun with Cleve and Jane. As an antidote to the plot’s syrupiness, Thurber plops in a very vinegary element: the mob. References...
...There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist." - On corruption charges against him being dropped before this week's elections. (BBC, April...