Word: winterize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Attention, winter sports aficionados: Get your skiing, ice-skating and sledding in while you still can. According to a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we may be in the midst of a catastrophic planetary heating trend...
...adorned with Christmas lights last winter and decked with patriotic flags, the crane, for some students, became another Harvard landmark...
...second, shorter essay on an influential teacher. Most students opt for a boiler-plate hymn to the hardest teacher in school. But a rare description of a teacher who "was big, but not overweight...like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion--"she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself"--sent them straight for the ADMIT stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...
JEFF BEZOS The king of e-tail was $720 million in the red last winter when we made him Man of the Year. Amazon's stock price tumbles 75% this year, and he's still laughing. WAS WORTH: $13.3 billion in December NOW WORTH: $3.34 billion...
...trying in-vitro fertilization to get pregnant, you might consider waiting a few months. A report from Israel suggests that the likelihood of an egg's being fertilized, and the quality of the embryo that results, are lowest in autumn. No explanation yet, but things pick up by winter and peak when signs of life are popping up everywhere: in spring...