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...Police officers and National Guard troops and volunteers fanned out in every direction; TV helicopters turned and circled overhead in the widening gyre. There were power lines to worry about; some planes heading into Denver were rerouted. The cable-news anchors called in experts to speculate about how high the balloon might drift, how cold it could get inside, how fast it might fall, the odds Falcon would suffer hypoxia, or worse. But the only thing you could think as you watched, was how frightened that child had to be, how crazed with fear his parents, and how there seemed...
...Until recently, the North Atlantic oscillation, which strongly influences Europe's weather as well, was considered to be primarily a manifestation of the atmosphere. But researcher Michael McCartney of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution thinks it too is heavily influenced by the sea--in this case by an ocean gyre, a surface current that follows a sweeping circular route. This gyre, he believes, affects the atmosphere by shuttling parcels of warm and cold water between the tropics and northern latitudes...
...hitherto only suspected. The new probes not only confirmed these suspicions but also showed that the winds--actually, great bands of plasma slightly warmer than neighboring solar gases--dive deep into the solar interior, itself a mass of gases, then flow back toward the equator, creating a circular gyre reminiscent of Earth's great ocean currents, such as those that sweep the Atlantic and Pacific. "We used to think the inside of the sun was fairly simple," says John Harvey, an astronomer at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tuscon, Ariz. "But that was before we had the capability...
...under various state rules; no clear sign of a nominee; the vice presidency up in the air; 20 or so Republican Governors pining for it; and open warfare between the centrists and the 30% or so of delegates who are conservative Christians. All turning in the widening gyre of television and a computer age. "I think it could be the best race of the century in terms of a nomination fight," says G.O.P. consultant Paul Wilson. "And we get to watch...
...less modest views of himself. But whether he will ultimately be able to shape Poland's fate any more than Jaruzelski did may depend less on his skills than on geopolitics. The Soviet bear may be hibernating, but the German eagle is soaring in an ever widening economic gyre...