Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within the confines of its conventions, the film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more...
...wind, sun, temperature and humidity across the entire globe. And Doppler radar -- the technology at the heart of the Norman station -- is adept at spotting the destructive midsize squalls that have traditionally taken forecasters by surprise. By bouncing microwaves off the tiny droplets in the center of a cloud and picking up the echoes, Doppler systems can map the relative velocity of wind currents within the cloud. High-velocity winds and a high level of organization can signal the formation of a mesocyclone -- a precursor to a full-fledged tornado...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Laurence I. Barrett, Ann Blackman, Gisela Bolte, Ricardo Chavira, Jerome Cramer, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Michael Riley, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester...
...they got their answer. Nearby Mount Pinatubo, after sleeping quietly for more than 600 years, suddenly erupted in a series of explosions that shot plumes of steam and ash as much as 30 km (20 miles) into the sky. Debris rained down on surrounding villages, and a giant mushroom cloud was visible 100 km (60 miles) away in Manila...
...continued into the Amazon basin by mountain bike and white-water raft, the temperature and humidity rose. Cloud-forest plants and animals began to give way to parrots, fasciated tiger herons -- a hunter of large fish and snakes that looks like it is wearing a herringbone overcoat -- and other lowland creatures. We settled for the night at Amazonia Lodge, a former tea plantation across from the tiny river port of Atalaya. The owner, Santiago Yabar, tells us that he first visited the plantation as a tax collector in the 1970s, then later bought it and transformed its run-down buildings...