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Conventional radar stations on which Tornado Alley still depends are capable of picking up certain telltale signs that can presage tornadoes, including so-called hook echoes-reflections from areas of heavy precipitation surrounding a rotating parcel of air. But they cannot detect actual movement within the storm. By contrast, Doppler radar not only measures the direction of air flows, but actually clocks the speeds of raindrops and ice particles as they are whirled about in a brewing tornado...
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC POLICY by Sidney Hook...
...seminars at New York University, Professor Sidney Hook often asked students to define Bertrand Russell's beliefs. But no one could trap the gadfly who advocated the nuclear destruction of the U.S.S.R., the condemnation of U.S. imperialism, the adoption of idealism, rationalism or realism. Concluded the professor: "Next time anyone asks you, 'What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?,' the correct answer is, 'What year, please...
When future seminars address themselves to Sidney Hook's work, the correct response will require only one word change: Any year, please. As these 21 feisty essays demonstrate, over the past four decades the teacher-philosopher has seen no reason to alter his course. He did not need Alexander Solzhenitsyn to inform him of the Gulag; back in the '30s Hook condemned the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, nations whose politics employed "vicious ersatz theologies." The Supreme Court's pendulum decisions on criminal justice have found Hook unchanged; he has long advocated the rights of the victim...
...first 13 miles were enjoyable, but after that it was just a matter of sticking it out and making it to the finish line by hook or by crook," Larson said. After running through Wellesley, Larson walked off and on for the remainder of the race when his lack of training left him feeling "physically abused...