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...Episode 224, he's vacationing with his family in San Francisco during one of the foggiest summers on record. "... Hold on. I'm reaching back to grab ... some money for the toll ... [rustling] ... It's foggy again today. You can barely see the Bay Bridge...
...nice story, say other scientists, who nonetheless remain skeptical. As Kerry Emanuel, a hurricane expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, puts it, "We really don't have the foggiest idea why hurricane formation in the Atlantic was inactive in the '70s, '80s and '90s and so active in the '40s, '50s and early '60s. So if someone says there'll be more hurricanes than normal over the next 10 years, and someone else says there'll be fewer, each has a 50% chance of being right." The variability of hurricane formation in the Atlantic is one of meteorology...
What is to be done? I know that a call for divestment would elicit passionate responses, especially from those opposed to the very idea, and I am far from being even remotely equipped to argue the case in economic terms—I do not have the foggiest idea of how the stock market operates. Friends who know about these things tell me that a divestment would be very hard to implement: where does one draw the line? What about index funds and their multifarious investments? What about economic giants like G.E.? And since I am invoking the authority...
...roommates—Phil, Marc and the two Matts (I want their names in print so they never forget)—hadn’t the foggiest idea of what I was purchasing when I excitedly recounted the virtues of the game. They thought I had gone off my rocker, that Nok Hockey was just another crazy idea, like all my previous crazy ideas...
...Fair Harvard—are shrouded, misty. Sure. I recall John Finley’s final Hum 3 lecture. I remember being awed by Professors James Q. Wilson and Otto Eckstein as well as being astounded by Stanley Hoffman and Michael Waltzer. But I haven’t the foggiest memory of what any of them actually said...