Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winfrey has made his own journey--which has taken him from a poor home in Atlanta to the richest university in the nation...
Hultin says he was struck by the uncanny timing of his journey, which took place just as a strange virus with great pandemic potential was emerging in Hong Kong. "I was very apprehensive," he says. "I was waiting for it to come--and it didn't." But another pandemic, he believes, is inevitable. He has given his wife instructions on what to do to survive it: retreat to their mountain cabin until the onslaught passes. It was a tactic, he knows, that was successfully used in 1918 by a village just 30 miles from Brevig. Its elders, after learning...
Each day, Harvard students must make the treacherous trek through the Yard. The journey is full of many obstacles: ropes, squirrels, occasional piles of canine dung, but most of all the ubiquitous hoards of tourists...
...long-held belief that the former runs the show. The atmosphere is fickle, they observe. Storms form, then quickly dissipate, so whatever information they contain about the conditions that created them is quickly lost. By contrast, ocean gyres take anywhere from 10 to 20 years to complete a single journey, making them perfect vehicles for transmitting messages into the future. With the exception of the tropical Pacific, unfortunately, the oceans are even less well monitored than the surface of the moon. The changes they undergo, moreover, exceed any individual scientist's lifetime...
...tien might soon indicate "an interest in supporting or participating." All in all, it's hardly a Gulf War-style coalition being built here. Meanwhile, Boris Yeltsin continues to rail against the United States' "unrealistic and dangerous" attempt to establish "world hegemony." And congressional leaders continue their own rhetorical journey into jingoism. If Clinton can negotiate his way out of this one, he'll surely deserve that Nobel Peace Prize...