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...rising menace. That's because a growing number of scientists believe that conditions favorable for brewing more and even bigger hurricanes in the Atlantic locked into place about eight years ago and will probably persist for at least a decade and maybe longer. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg, a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "but an overall doubling of major hurricane activity...
Senior Mark Riddell lost in the first round of the double-elimination singles tourney to William & Mary’s Sean Kelleher, 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, but won two matches in the consolation bracket before retiring due to a minor foot injury after dropping the first set of the fourth round to top-seeded Stephen Mitchell of Alabama...
Johnson’s performance was nearly flawless in his first varsity game—with not one bad snap and only minor missed blocking assignments...
...executive decisions," says Cleese in The Pythons Autobiography, "and something that wouldn't happen for a split second today." Python's progress since then is a familiar tale - 45 shows, 5 films, 12 albums and a few too many reunions - and the only revelations in the book are the minor bust-ups of the Pythons, who inevitably wearied as their Circus labored into the 1980s. The narrative is nailed crudely together from sawn-up planks of new interviews with the stars - and old ones with friends and family in the case of Chapman, who died in 1989 - with no attempt...
When I was growing up, an editorial cartoon from the local newspaper hung in my family’s kitchen. Published around 1992, just after a minor storm had knocked out power to most of the area, it depicted a house submerged in a 100-foot snowbank, all of its wires out of commission. A plaintive voice rose from beneath the icy tomb: “Another ferocious blizzard! No power! No TV! No computer! We’re totally cut off from the information superhighway!” A second speaker replied, “Isn?...