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...SEPTEMBER 1940, Jean-Paul Sartre, then recognized by the French literary community as a promising young author, was called into the service of his country as a meteorologist. On a whim, he decided to keep war journals to document the people he met, the places he saw, and the thoughts he had during the war. He completed 14 volumes, but only five have survived. In this first collected edition they provide a unique window on the philosopher's thought...
...week ago Friday and I was stretched out on my bed in the Duluth Holiday Inn. WJBR's meteorologist had just finished has forecast with the suggestion that everyone stay tuned for an interesting segment in the second half of the program about the young man whose newspaper article had caused so much controversy...
Scientists are already queuing up with their pet projects. University of Pennsylvania Economist Lawrence Klein wants supercomputer time to build a comprehensive model of the world economy. At the University of Illinois, Meteorologist Robert Wilhelmson hopes to simulate the birth of a tornado. Hidenori Murakami, a structural engineer at UCSD, aims to predict the effects of earthquakes on skyscrapers, bridges and other structures. And at Cornell, researchers working under Wilson want to use their new machine to design a supercomputer a thousand times more powerful than the one they are about to receive...
...possible approximation of the aftermath of nuclear war, according to a study released in Washington last week by the National Research Council, the principal operating agency of the nation's most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University...
...above sea level. In 1983, April showers followed an exceptionally snowy winter and led to this year's peak of 4,209.25 ft. Larger in an average year than Rhode Island, the lake has grown by 30%, to 2,250 sq. mi. As one Utah meteorologist puts it, "If you compared it to earthquakes, it would be as if you had a Richter scale from one to ten, and the last two years were...