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...explanation may be hard to come by. Experts have calculated that the tiny change in the solar constant detected by Solar Max can supply less than a millionth of the energy needed to produce the observed changes in weather. "If there really is an effect," says Van Loon, "there must be an enhancing mechanism, and we don't have the foggiest idea of what that enhancing mechanism might be." Yet the statistical evidence is so compelling that many scientists are taking it seriously. The QBO data have persuaded meteorologist Anthony Barnston, of the National Climate Analysis Center, to incorporate...
...refine or revise this model, scientists must learn more about the interior structure and behavior of the sun. A new tool has evolved that should help them in their quest -- helioseismology, which, simply stated, involves "listening" to the interior of the sun as it bubbles, gurgles and swirls. The entire outer third of the sun is a seething ocean of gas, constantly churned by thermal convection. And convection, says astronomer John Harvey of the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak, "is a very noisy process. So the sun makes noise, just as a pot of water does as it boils...
...first casualty is memory. Every advance in writing, from stone to clay to paper to electronic blips, is at the same time an advance in erasing. In the electronic age erasing has become literally effortless: it takes an act of commission -- you must command your computer to SAVE -- to retain information. Simple omission, or an electrical storm, turns computer thoughts to ether...
...possible deal, the business of Greece has come to a halt. Since there is no elected head of government, President Christos Sartzetakis will represent Greece at this week's European summit in Madrid. Negotiations with the U.S. for a new agreement on American military bases in Greece must await a functioning government. A long-overdue austerity program is also on hold. "The country is running itself now," said Parliament member George Voulgarakis...
...year-old auteur (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze) must be enjoying his prominence as the angry young man of the don't-worry, be-happy '80s. Of all the blacks who have strutted through the studio door that Eddie Murphy kicked down, Lee is the one who won't settle for being a Murphy manque. Sure, he markets himself cannily, as a performer in Air Jordan commercials, and with books and The Making of . . . spinoffs of his own movies. But Lee will not be ingratiating; he wants to be accepted on his own rude terms. Same goes...