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...name La Nina, Spanish for "the girl," was concocted two years ago to distinguish the "cold event" from El Nino, "the boy" or "Christ child," so named because it usually makes its appearance near Christmastime. Marked by an influx of warm water and winds from the western Pacific, El Nino is known to bring heavy winter rains to Peruvian deserts and warm weather to the U.S. West Coast. The two systems make up the extremes of a giant meteorological system called the Southern Oscillation that links the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant...
...Sorel, Jacobina Martin stands out. Sorel realizes that her family has plunged headlong into the abyss of eccentricity and wants to do something to improve the situation. Martin manages to portray both sides of her character well, shifting easily between the personalities of a pouting child and a semi-sophisticated young woman. She cries and whines a lot, but she gives her character a tragicomic aura that earns the audience's sympathies...
...repeal the prevailing wage is simply another attempt to rend the fabric of this social contract; its proponents are not only anti-labor, but anti-community. Organized labor is a valuable and productive component of American society. The prevailing wage is as important to the labor movement as child labor laws, Right-to-Know laws, and the minimum wage...
...somehow think that people know what you're doing, and you take for granted that they know what you're doing, because you're working so hard and the programs are being put into place and child care is coming about and jobs are coming about," said Graham. "The physical things are there, and you just surmise that people know that you're doing all this work...
...integrate its older students into campus life, Chatham College, a small liberal arts school for women in Pittsburgh, renovated a separate dorm for adults. Berry Hall is convenient, affordable ($350 a month for a mother and child, including utilities); day care is provided nearby. The University of California at Santa Cruz, where 1,500 of the 9,000 students are beyond the keg-party stage, provides subsidized family housing...