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...gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached bone...
Corals are not the only recorders of climate history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...
...Yale, will pressure the weakened Crimson offense with its stingy defensive play. Senior guard DeShawn Standard, fourth in the Ivies in steals, and junior center Jeffrion Aubry, first in the league in blocks, lead a Big Red attack whose 39 percent field goal percentage allowed is tops in the Ancient Eight...
Indeed the rules of the game in the Ivy League have changed. No longer is Harvard the unbeatable basketball monolith, the lone Goliath to seven Ancient Eight Davids...
...SATURDAY The opening ceremonies will have 2,450 athletes from 72 nations and much tradition. Sumo grand champion Akebono will perform an ancient purification ritual...