Word: fall
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...really knows. Finding out might seem to be a hopeless task, considering that the phenomenon was discovered only about a century ago by Peruvian fishermen. (It was they who called it El Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of 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...
...curb the effects of El Nino. But do they influence each other at a deeper level? Does El Nino trigger any of these other cycles? Is it triggered by them? To find out, Fairbanks turned to the Indian Ocean, where sea-surface temperatures, it turns out, rise and fall in response to both the monsoonal cycle and the El Nino cycle...
This is a summer village mainly, and it is unusual to see lights in the houses after the fall has come and gone. But on this winter weekend, perhaps because of the new snow, people have come back, and the windows of the houses beam. I am accustomed to walking the length of the street after dinner in near total darkness, so it makes for a happy surprise, this sudden brightening. In the dead black cold of night, the windows seem to shiver with gold and amber--strong and beautiful assertions of the light...
...their breathtaking speed. Grishuk, an aspiring actress who has changed her first name from Oksana to avoid confusion with singles skater Oksana Baiul, is particularly admired for her quick, clean-edge turns known as "twizzles." The high technical difficulty of the pair's programs has resulted in a few falls this season, but they accept the risk. "If we made our dance easier, we would never fall," says Platov. "But we have some footwork that is extremely difficult. It is so fast and has so many turns that it makes us unique and unbeatable...
...predator who becomes active in his late teens and strikes victim after victim. LeTourneau's record was clean. Moore and others who examined LeTourneau believed she committed a sex crime because of delusions occasioned by the illness--a distinction with important implications for her therapy. It was late fall before LeTourneau's doctors were able to persuade her jailers to give her a drug called Depakote, to which "she had a positive response," Moore said...