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Originally from Coral Springs, Fla., Frey is a resident of Quincy House. A computer science concentrator, she was a teaching fellow (TF) for Computer Science 50, "Introduction to Computer Science I," for the past two semesters. This semester she is a TF for Computer Science 161, "Operating Systems...
...scientists who make it their business to track the world's weather, however, have appreciated it all along. This El Nino may be the most studied weather phenomenon of all time. For months, and in some cases years, meteorologists have been poring over weather maps, running supercomputer simulations, studying coral reefs, tree rings and glacial ice--all to try to understand the dynamics of a pool of warm water in the Pacific...
...years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas Island. Using a powerful oil drill, he and his colleagues repeatedly bored into ancient reef beds buried beneath the sea floor, pulling up chunks of coral as white as sun-bleached bone...
...colleagues reported in a recent issue of the journal Science, a 150-year-old coral from the Seychelles Islands perfectly preserves both sets of fluctuations. One pattern tracks the El Nino fluctuations, swinging back and forth every few years; the other rises and falls on a 12-year schedule that closely follows India's official monsoon-rainfall index...
...spirit of free trade to help fight off a federal takeover. In the past year more than 90 members of the House of Representatives, their family members and aides have been flown to Saipan free of charge on inspection visits that include time on the golf courses and coral reefs for which the island is famous. A new Governor, Pedro Tenorio, was inaugurated last week, pledging to reduce the tensions with Washington. "It is in our best interest to see the system work," he says. But Tenorio does not plan to close down the garment industry to stave...