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Rogue waves generally occur out in the open ocean. They may be the result of a number of factors coming together - strong winds and fast currents coinciding, for instance - or of a focusing effect, in which several smaller waves join together to form one big wave. There may even be a nonlinear effect at work, in which just a small change in wind speed multiplies to form a big wave. And certain areas of the ocean, like the strong waters off Africa's coast, may be more vulnerable to rogue waves than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do 'Rogue Waves' Work? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...microwave equivalent of rogue waves - appeared up to 100 times more often than standard wave theory would predict. Those results indicate that rogue waves might be a lot more common than scientists had believed and could explain why so many large ships - as many as two a week - sink even in the absence of bad weather. One day we might even be able to predict when these earthquakes of the sea occur - sparing future cruisegoers the trauma suffered by those on the Louis Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruise-Ship Disaster: How Do 'Rogue Waves' Work? | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...mixing for her work on Star Trek, agreed to hear my suggestions. For those of you who don't know what a sound mixer does: she mixes sound. I met Anna four years ago, when I attempted to prove that fashion publicity had gotten so out of control that even a sound mixer could get a designer to lend her a dress for the Oscars. A $2,650 Escada dress, a $1,195 black Swarovski-crystal purse and a $45,000 Erica Courtney diamond bracelet later, I had proved that I am the gayest investigative journalist in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Oscar Thank You Speech (for Sound Mixing) | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...showing enough excitement onstage, since he's British. And when the guy in the booth starts to play music to drown her out, she'll call him out by name and union local number and tell him he can't do this to a fellow sound mixer. Then, even though I told her not to about 20 times, I'm pretty sure she'll thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Oscar Thank You Speech (for Sound Mixing) | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

Crowley, now the chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company in New Jersey, says that with even medium and larger companies cutting back on research and development and many smaller companies having gone out of business, he expects “[to] see five to seven years from now a huge gap in medical investments...a drought...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Targeting the Cure: A Feature Film | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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