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...years at TIME chasing hurricanes and other science stories. This week the senior correspondent, based in Chicago, reveals why Hurricane Floyd, a huge storm at its height, will pale compared with those that lie ahead. Climate and weather are of particular interest to Nash, who is currently writing a book on those subjects. "Hurricanes," she says, "are one of the great forces of nature. We keep trying to bend them to our will, and we keep trying to make them conform to our own preconceived ideas about how nature should behave. But nature, in my estimation, rules...
Part 1 of the whammy: heavy redemptions often force a fund manager to sell stocks and book gains that would otherwise be avoided, just so they can pay departing investors. Part 2: fewer remain to share the tax liability...
...browser and unrepentant Quake player, I'm strictly a laptop kind of guy. I demand more screen real estate than you get on a device small enough to fit in your shirt pocket. Also, I don't have enough friends or business associates to necessitate an e-address book...
Architect Christian De Portzamparc's innovative 23-story building in Manhattan with a faceted, overlapping glass facade [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 6] is indeed striking, but perhaps he has unknowingly taken a leaf from Apple Computer's book. With a Bondi Blue color typical of the iMac and a translucent exterior, can this building be mistaken as anything but an iRise? Perhaps later we'll see versions in lime, blueberry, tangerine, grape and strawberry? DENNIS WINDRIM Edmonton, Alta...
DONALD TRUMP High-haired huckster pens book, may try for presidency. "Boris, baby, some Russian roulette...