Word: forestation
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...escaping into the atmosphere. Trees are also important recyclers of moisture to the atmosphere. In some parts of the Amazon basin, deforestation has reached the point where it is altering precipitation patterns. This is because so much of the moisture entrained by clouds comes from the canopy of the forest below; as large tracts of trees disappear, so do portions of the aqueous reservoir that feeds the local rainmaking machine...
Unfortunately, Harvard came up on the short end. Stephan F. Austin won with 151 points, while the Crimson tied Rice for second place with 149 points. Texas A&M-Kingsville and Wake Forest finished a distant fourth and fifth, respectively...
Scientists presented their latest misgivings about estrogen's coronary benefits at last week's meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Anaheim, Calif. In a preliminary analysis of a study of 309 women with heart disease, Dr. David Herrington of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., and his colleagues reported that estrogen, taken by itself or in combination with the drug progestin, had no effect for better or worse on the atherosclerotic plaques in the women's coronary arteries. Their conclusion echoes that of another study of female heart patients, published 18 months ago, that...
...being terminally onanistic, there is no thrill in beating a machine. You can't feel its pain when it loses. Or to put it slightly less misanthropically, you miss the shared astonishment and delight at a brilliant combination or desperate last-second checkmate. If a king falls in the forest and there is no one there to see it (except you and some stone-dead chess algorithm), did it ever happen? You might as well make a hole-in-one playing alone...
...Divided between a career in business or medicine, Jimmy Liu '01 took his sophomore year off to make his decision. Because of his interest in business, he bought a satelite dish to receive stock quotes in Forest Hills, KY. He started day trading with a small piece of his future tuition. When his parents saw how successful he was, they raked over the funds for the remaining three years...