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...conditions across a wide stretch of ocean. Consequently, climate experts no longer refer to El Nino alone but speak of the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Rather like a pendulum, the ENSO cycle swings between an El Nino state and its opposite, a cold-water state known as La Nina (the girl) or El Viejo (the old man). Taken as a whole, ENSO is a powerful driver of global weather patterns. In fact, say scientists, it is, besides seasonal variations caused by the earth's travels around the sun, the major cause of month-to-month variation in climate...
...same belief that led the producers of Dave to cast a herd of Washington newsies in that political satire, including NPR's Nina Totenberg, journalist-historian Richard Reeves and the McLaughlin Group. And TV buffs will remember Walter Cronkite's walk-on at the end of a Mary Tyler Moore Show episode more than two decades ago. With Contact, however, the journalistic community's sensitivity to the blurring of the lines between news and entertainment has caused some sober second thoughts. CNN president Tom Johnson said last week that in the future such appearances will probably be banned, bringing...
...Woman (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), is one of a trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...
...also for historical perspective. There is particular significance to running this year's marathon as women. We will follow in the literal footsteps of women like Kathrine Switzer, fellow Cantabridgian Sara Mae Berman and Joan Benoit who were among the first women to run Boston's course. While Nina Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y. won the first official women's marathon in 1972, Switzer, Berman and Benoit stand out as three female pioneers. In 1967, Switzer, a Syracuse University student, applied for a race by using only the initials of her first and middle name. Boston's first female competitor completed...
Four years ago, when she was 47, Nina Shandler turned into a red-eyed wretch, wrung out by hot flashes that banished sleep. There she was, lying in bed, soaking in her own sweat, awakened "at two-hour intervals every single night by a self-generated tropical typhoon." She knew the term hot flash but hadn't expected to encounter one this side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse...