Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buzzing" our tents and to see its red nose appear above the olive trees. I am now copying my diary of the missions I was on for my grandchildren, and have many accounts of the protection we received from the Tuskegee airmen. CLAIR H. SCHMITT Greeley, Colorado...
...this upcoming fall season, coach Gordon Graham only has to rekindle the fire. The season begins at the end of September with the Harvard Invitational, which features Wisconsin, Rice, Colorado and Boston College. None of them are patsies--Wisconsin and Rice are both Top 30 teams, while Colorado should be ranked...
...will flow into the St. Croix River, to the Mississippi, south to an aqueduct at Keokuk, Iowa, and from there west to the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon and many other southwestern canyons, filling them up to the rims--enough water to supply the parched Southwest from Los Angeles to Santa Fe for more than 50 years...
...even if that doesn't happen, an ominous question remains: What, if anything, does this unnerving spate of extreme weather signify? Is it just a meteorological fluke, a one-season anomaly? Or could it signal a potentially devastating long-term trend? Atmospheric scientist William Gray of Colorado State University fears the answer is the latter...
...least. In practice, nature often kills hurricanes before they are born. For example, the intermittent warm-water current in the Pacific Ocean known as El Ni¤o generates westerly winds that reach halfway around the globe to disrupt cloud formations that might otherwise form hurricanes. In fact, says Colorado State's Gray, a major reason there have been so few hurricanes in recent years is that El Nino has continued on a more or less nonstop basis...