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Whether this turns out to be the key factor or just one of many, the trend toward more damaging hurricanes is clear. The reason was made explicit in a study done by Christopher Landsea, a research meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, and Roger A. Pielke Jr., a social scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. They looked at the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history and then, says Pielke, posed the question: "If history repeats itself, and it certainly will, what might we expect?" To answer...
Another potentially lethal factor: hurricanes can suddenly change in intensity. For Jerry Jarrell, director of the federal Tropical Prediction Center (which includes the National Hurricane Center), the most frightening near miss was not Andrew but Hurricane Opal, which hit the Gulf Coast in October 1995. Opal had been a weak storm, but just before it struck, it underwent what forecasters call "rapid deepening," leaping from Category 2 to nearly Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division...
...open up to a larger audience partly because young adults grew up with VCRs, cable TV and the Internet and thus have been exposed to more adult material. And the AIDS epidemic has prompted a turn to voyeurism as a prudent alternative to sex. But an equally big factor, say the porn manufacturers, is that since Bill Clinton took office, the Justice Department hasn't prosecuted any new interstate transportation of obscenity cases...
...Talking Back: Thinking Feminist/Thinking Black: "Love can be and is an important source of empowerment...to face the ways in which we dominate and are dominated... To change our actions, we need a mediating force to sustain us." Hill's songs try to be that mediating force. On Ex-Factor, she examines her own attraction to psychologically hurtful men. "Who I have to be/ To get some reciprocity?" she pleads. Later, the meditative title song gives an answer: "I made up my mind to find my own destiny...
...Mercedes. Lawyers for the photographers argue that Paul's drunkenness and reckless driving caused the accident, and point to the Ritz's responsibility in allowing Paul to take the wheel. Lawyers for the Ritz-Fayed camp claim that the aggressive pursuit by the paparazzi was the main "causal factor" behind the speed and choice of itinerary leading to the notoriously dangerous Alma tunnel...