Word: sunning
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have proliferated to 19, such major corporate tie-ins have begun to be the norm. Among them: the Federal Express Orange Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl, Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl and Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl. In El Paso sports reporters and other locals persisted in calling the John Hancock Sun Bowl by its old name, the Sun Bowl. So last year the insurance company got the name changed. Now it is officially the John Hancock Bowl...
...after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh sun...
...call it propaganda. Turner Broadcasting is producing a half-hour syndicated cartoon show in which a superhero named Captain Planet and a youth corps called the Planeteers valiantly fight villainous polluters like Dr. & Blight. The back cover of one issue of P3 (for Earth, the third planet from the sun), a glitzy new environmental magazine for kids, shows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle shouting to readers, "Hey, dudes! Earth is a cowabunga planet! Let's keep it radical...
...before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning sun...
...most controversial aspect of the SimEarth model may be its reliance on the so-called Gaia hypothesis, a theory of evolution that views the earth as a single organism with various feedback mechanisms to maintain conditions suitable for life. In SimEarth this means that as the heat from the sun increases 25%, as it has during the past few billion years, changes will automatically occur in factors like the rate of cloud formation to keep the surface temperature relatively stable. The feedback loops appear most valuable when they are turned off, as they were when I played in the "hard...