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...Nino is back. What is going on? scientists wonder. Are frequent El Ninos a signal of global warming caused by human tampering with the atmosphere? Or do they arise from random fluctuations in the natural cycle? There are as yet no good answers to these questions. Observes Michael Glantz of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: "The discrepancy between what we think we know about El Nino and what there is to know may still be quite large...
Hardy souls who crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...
...respirator. The 15- month-old boy died in his father's arms. Linares was charged with first- degree murder, but a Cook County grand jury refused to indict him. In fact, out of some 20 U.S. cases of "mercy killings" in the past 50 years, studied by Leonard Glantz of Boston University, only three defendants have been sentenced to jail...
Senior Richard Korhammer, who took last year off to train for a shot at the Olympic team, is back and should dominate the breaststroke events. Other big contributors for the Tigers should be Ty Nelson in the butterfly, Albert Price in the sprint freestyle and Joshua Glantz in the individual medley...
...When Glantz's forecasting technique is applied to the rest of the world, two things become clear. One is that virtually every long-term environmental change is occurring in miniature somewhere on the planet, whether it is a regional warming trend in sub-Saharan Africa or the vanishing coastline in Louisiana. The other is that Homo sapiens is an immensely resourceful species, with an impressive ability to accommodate sweeping change. In countries and regions hit by climatic upheavals, people have come up with a variety of solutions that are likely to have broad applicability to the global problems of tomorrow...