Word: chases
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his second wife, whom he married two years ago (although they have five children), was having an affair with an air force officer who worked for the royal family. The document bars the alleged adulterers from the palace, adding, "Should they be seen, the public is requested to chase them away...
...matter of life and death, cinema was an instant sensation. In Europe it attracted not only lifelong fans but also visionary artists. On a par with, or ahead of, directors in the U.S., they created film art. Color, sound, musical scores, special effects, the chase, the epic, the sequel--all were pioneered by Europeans in the early 1900s, long before Americans made movies in a town called Hollywood...
...Computer and explosive technology to die for (many will). An imperturbably resourceful undercover agent (in this case Tom Cruise) who must, among other strenuous chores, penetrate a supposedly impregnable vault wherein reposes a secret, sacred document that everybody else is pursuing too. And last but not least: a helicopter/train chase ending in the predictable fireball that equally predictably fails even to singe Cruise's beetle brows...
...data they recorded--wind speed, temperature, pressure, humidity--have turned out to be extraordinarily rich. "We got more good data out of VORTEX," exclaims Peter Hildebrand of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, "than we had collected in the past 30 years." Among other things, the chase teams managed to position a Turtle so it actually caught the sharp pressure drop as a VORTEX passed overhead; tucked into the center of the tornado's swirling interior, a cylinder of down-flowing air that may be the equivalent of a hurricane's eye was spotted by researchers...
Rasmussen and his colleagues are just beginning to work their way through the VORTEX data, and they cannot yet say how well the different models are faring. Like all successful experiments, VORTEX has produced more questions than answers, and later this month chase teams will take to the road to try to answer some of them. For instance, how important is it that the tornadoes observed by VORTEX all hit areas that had been visited by storms earlier the same day? No one knows. "Right now," says University of Oklahoma researcher Jerry Straka, "VORTEX has confused the hell...