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Signs of trouble were present for Jamison from an early age. The daughter of an Air Force meteorologist and a teacher, she was mercurially moody as a child and became severely depressed as an adolescent. At 16 she felt the first intoxicating high of mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people...
...This is very unusual," said National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Bruno. "It's a very cold, very wet September" in contrast to the very hot and humid summer, Bruno said...
Nonetheless, there are times when the sight of the iron-grey ceiling we used to call the sky, and the voice of the meteorologist calling for another thunderstorm, and the thought of pulling on sodden boots for a trek across campus conspire to make Harvard students wish that they had chosen to pursue their higher education in warmer climes. Suddenly, California earthquakes don't seem...
...armada had already put to sea. On that June morning in 1944, screaming winds rattled the windows of the British naval headquarters near Portsmouth, where the D-day commanders were meeting. The rain, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower later recalled, lashed down in "horizontal streaks." A Royal Air Force meteorologist, however, cautiously predicted clearing skies for the next day, June 6. Eisenhower conferred with the generals and admirals gathered around him. He thought for less than a minute, then stood up. "O.K.," he said...
...Huug van den Dool, meteorologist, National Weather Service...