Word: lassoing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VORTEX scientists managed to encircle 10 tornadoes in their virtual lasso, and the data they recorded--wind speed, temperature, pressure, humidity--have turned out to be extraordinarily rich. "We got more good data out of VORTEX," exclaims Peter Hildebrand of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, "than we had collected in the past 30 years." Among other things, the chase teams managed to position a Turtle so it actually caught the sharp pressure drop as a VORTEX passed overhead; tucked into the center of the tornado's swirling interior, a cylinder of down-flowing air that...
...Chamber Chorus--perform Bach's Cantata 40, Ullyses Kay's Choral Tryptich, Jannequin's La Guerre, and works by Schutz and Lasso. Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Dr., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m. Free...