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Born in England and reared in New Zealand, Borrell began his journalism career "drawing weather maps and covering flower shows" for a provincial newspaper. An itch to see the world soon sent him off to Africa, where he spent eleven years winging around that vast continent, covering wars and revolutions...
Not surprisingly, the earliest models in the 1960s were hopelessly simplistic. The earth's surface was often reduced to one continent with one ocean, fixed cloud cover and no seasons. But as computing power grew, so did the complexity of climate modeling. Continents were added. So were mountain ranges, deeper...
Thirteen times during their eight-week stay, a specially outfitted DC-8 took off from the Presidente Ibanez Airport, twelve miles northeast of Punta Arenas. Often the 40-odd scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane...
"Warra, warra!" With this half-angry, half-frightened shout to "go away," the Aborigines greeted the first fleet of British ships that ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788. The Europeans ignored the yells, and the Aborigines have suffered from negligence ever since. Now comprising only 1% of...
Still, not all West Europeans are enthusiastic about the increasingly cozy relationship between the two Germanys. Some worry that West Germany, in its eagerness to accommodate Honecker, will gradually loosen its ties to the Atlantic Alliance and the European Community. A few West Europeans have even raised the specter of...