Word: raring
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...same time, El Nino gives scientists a rare chance to study a phenomenon that transcends the short-term weather forecasts that are the bread and butter of meteorologists. In many ways, El Nino may be a dry run for the kind of large-scale weather effects some scientists predict will accompany the climate changes caused by global warming...
...rare moment that the powers-that-be of Harvard College grant sanction to fun. As should be expected, the people in University Hall and the Office of the Registrar are primarily concerned with prolonging our academic agony; legislation friendly to our social lives is unusual indeed. This time, however, Harvard seems to have goofed up. In the guise of honoring conspicuously dead Presidents, the College has accidentally encouraged free love by giving us a three-day Valentine's Day weekend...
There is no mention of Widener in the in the script and no rare-book collector in the dining room on board. Nevertheless, when at the beginning of the film the rusty safe is eagerly opened only to reveal a pile of soaked papers, I half-expected to see what was left of Widener's first edition of Bacon's Essays, the volume he is said to have returned to his cabin to fetch before the ship went under...
...Allen Counter is a busy, busy man, and getting an hour-long interview with him is a rare honor. His wide range of academic interests and social connections become immediately apparent as he sits in Loker Common and waves and smiles at a student or colleague every few minutes...
...giant slalom, Chris Klug, 25, won his hometown Mount Bachelor event and picked up a rare win over Canada's Fawcett to secure a spot on the U.S. team. Klug, a former high school All-Star quarterback, has the brightest chance for a win over the Canadians. Europeans, who have long dominated the Alpine events, still could sweep the giant slalom. "I wouldn't be surprised if the podium was one-two-three for Austria," says Fawcett. On the women's race course, Lisa Kosglow, 24, of Boise, Ind., overcame a rough early-season start to win the Mount Bachelor...