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...only recorders of climate history. Jay Noller, for example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...
...Cecilia-Nan Ding, 17, to name the last compact disc she bought or the last movie she saw, and she cannot tell you. But ask the senior at the prestigious Boston Latin School how many beds for battered women there are in Boston's shelters, and her recall is a rapid 400...419, to be precise--a number Nan (as she prefers to be called) finds disturbing. Consider in comparison, she says, the number of calls made in 1996 to Massachusetts women's hot lines...
...design six or seven backyards in an afternoon. Mowing the lawn is not generally regarded as a fun chore, but souping up your mower with electronic cruise control and power steering makes it a vastly more enjoyable experience. True, the tractor costs almost as much as a compact car, but if El Nino and global warming are what they're cracked up to be, those added features may just be the weapon you need to help battle back the coming attack of crabgrass next spring...
...channel-changer flip through nearly 100 channels is as American as apple pie. Cable Television is a staple in nearly every household and college dorm room in America. Why should the Harvard houses be the exception? Every Harvard resident should be able to watch Ab and Magnus hoist compact cars over their heads or buy a limited edition Joan Rivers hairpin on the Home Shopping Network. Fiddling with the antenna for five channels went out of style with the rotary phone and leaded gasoline...
...political minefield, Clinton finally settled on a program that would start as painlessly as possible, with a five-year, $5 billion program of tax credits for companies that invest in energy-saving technology, and government spending on energy research. He pointed out that many fuel-saving technologies, such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, already exist, and other breakthroughs, like practical fuel cells that generate clean energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen, are being put to greater use all the time. The government has already begun to jump start the alternative-energy industry by purchasing products like solar cells in bulk...