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...resembled the crowd that assembles each year for the Boston Pops' Fourth of July performance at the Hatch Shell or a Red Sox game. One hundred thousand people in shorts and T-shirts stood on walkways or sprawled on lawn chairs and beach towels in the uncommonly hot and humid weather. One might have expected to see Nine Inch Nails perform on the gargantuan stage instead of the Boston Symphony...
Anthony Williams steps from the chilly comfort of his campaign sedan into a humid Washington night. He has come to a rundown D.C. recreation center in what used to be Marion Barry country for a mayoral-candidate forum. Barry won't be here; after his genuinely baroque political career, the man who immortalized the words "Bitch set me up" has finally stepped aside. In his place stands Williams, who--if polls are right--will win the Sept. 15 Democratic primary (more important than the general election in this one-party town) and become mayor...
Allow me to invite you down to the Louisiana bayou. It's a place where the temperature is so high, the men are often more comfortable walking around without their shirts on than with 'em; a place where the air is so humid, the women will dress in little more than cutoffs and a tank top whether they're sitting around the house or going off to work. As for the atmosphere--well, let's just say that for every one part oxygen, you'll find three or four parts sexual energy. Down here, it's a force that...
...that's too easy an explanation. Scientists suspect that something more fundamental--and frightening--is happening. In one country after another, flames are going where they've never gone before. "These fires are burning into virgin, humid forests that have evolved without fire," says Nels Johnson of Washington's World Resources Institute. "There is no historical precedent for the fires in the cloud forests of the Lacondon region of Mexico." Fire storms in the rain forests--the very idea defies common sense--have become an unmistakable distress signal from the developing world...
This feature of the stacks has left them susceptible to the wild fluctuations of New England weather, ranging from humid summers to freezing winters...