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...contrast, the period between 1970 and 1994 averaged less than two major hurricanes per year, which raises the central question of this hurricane season: Why is the Atlantic producing so many big storms these days? The reason, believes Goldenberg, lies in a broad 1??F-to-1.5°F rise in sea-surface temperatures that occurred in the mid-1990s. That slight but significant increase is thought to be due to a cyclical shift in ocean-circulation patterns. When the Atlantic last warmed, between 1926 and 1970, a parade of monster storms menaced the Caribbean and the coastal U.S. Then...
...Everyone told us it would be around 30° to 40°, but this is ridiculous. We have never experienced anything like this." TAMARA NEEMA, a Californian visiting New York City's Times Square, as temperatures matched a record low of 1?...
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Businessmen complain that they are losing money because they cannot raise prices fast enough. The exchange rate, for example, is modified daily at 1 p.m. "We don't alter our prices accordingly, so on every sale we automatically lose between ½ % to 1??% a day," says Avram Kalisky, owner of a Jerusalem computer store. Many Israelis make ends meet by overdrawing their checking accounts between paydays, but the privilege can cost up to 19% interest a month. Others juggle their money from one account to another to avoid the costly bank charges. The inflationary cycle is self-perpetuating, since there...
...three times a week and eventually every other day. The treatments took place in a sanitarium near Moscow and also at a southern resort. This therapy and the successful control of complications caused by infection permitted him to resume all of his official activities late last spring after a 1??-month absence. By July he was embarked on a program of exercise and swimming to rebuild his strength and was preparing for an official visit to Bulgaria...