Word: lamonte
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...soon as climate modelers spotted the area of warm water forming in the Pacific, they launched a coordinated effort to predict its effects on various regions of the world. Organized by the new International Research Institute for Climate Prediction--a joint venture of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA--these efforts have, in the main, been on target...
External forces may also help explain why El Nino has a different impact on the weather from one cycle to the next. Recently, for example, Ed Cook of Lamont-Doherty and Julie Cole of the University of Colorado used tree rings from hundreds of sites to see how El Nino affected North America in the past. Before 1920, they found, El Nino appears to have affected a much larger region of the U.S. than it does today, channeling winter rain and snow all the way up into the Great Lakes and Great Plains. Afterward, however, its sphere of influence retreated...
...paid to follow us around. They show up in our course sections, in group tutorials, in restaurants, in dining halls, in lines for washing machines, in the audiences at concerts and at other events. We remember them as "The Girl Who Always Wears My Purple Shirt" or "Fifth-Floor Lamont Guy" or "Laundry-Basket Boy" or "Pre-Frosh." We might even remember when we first saw them. They are the people who shopped that seminar with us last semester but didn't take it, the people who waited in line with us for an interview but didn...
...talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points out, this takes too long. There are other ways...
Students with visual and learning disabilities can have materials read to them or recorded for them by the Lamont Library Reader Service, in the basement of Lamont Library. The service also loans recorded books from the National Library Service for the Blind...