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What is going on? Experts say fluctuations from normal readings are, well, normal and that weird weather is the rule, not the exception. But the highs and lows and wets and drys over the past two years have been so extreme that anxious questions are arising. Could these outbursts of wacky weather be related to those fires from the gulf war? That hole in the ozone layer? The global warming trend that environmentalists have been predicting for so many years...
...speeds: clouds churn like white water crashing against rocks, water spins dizzyingly and car lights advance so rapidly they been one bright squiggles against a backdrop of blackness. The moon moves across the sky like a second hand on a clock. A lake fills with water and then suddenly drys up. Food decays faster than it could ever be eaten...
...executives were furious when they heard Butcher argue that Chase had no obligation because the bank had been merely a transfer agent between the brokerage houses and Drysdale. Their arrangement had been with Chase, the brokerage houses argued, not with Drys dale. Chase seemed to be breaking the most fundamental rule of Wall Street: a dealer stands behind his deal. Said one an gry brokerage house executive: "We had taken a negative view of Drysdale's opera tions from the start, and we never had any direct dealings with them at all. We did not know for whom Chase...
Founded in 1962, the N.R.P. represents Schmitt's attempt to get science's "wets" (chemists) and "drys" (physicists) together to work on the mystery of the brain. The organization is a loose federation of scientists who are themselves connected with such prestigious institutions as the University of California, Germany's Max Planck Institutes and the National Institutes of Health. These researchers constitute the faculty of an "invisible university." Meeting regularly to discuss specific topics and staying in constant communication by letter and telephone, | they hope to accomplish together what none could succeed in I doing alone. Five...