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Holton began Daedalus in 1948 with assistance from his wife, Nina...
...reflected waves reach Asia, they rebound again. But this double bounce inverts their effect: instead of depressing the thermocline, these twice-reflected waves now lift it up. Cool water dilutes the warmer liquid at the surface, causing a temperature drop in the eastern Pacific known, aptly enough, as La Nina. Thus, observes Ants Leetmaa, director of the National Climate Prediction Center, "each El Nino contains the seeds of its own destruction...
...Nina can bring its own set of weather headaches: a drier, hotter southern tier and a wetter, colder north. "Like a pendulum that goes back and forth, El Nino is one side of the extreme and La Nina is the other," says Scripps' Lisa Goddard. Although the magnitude of an El Nino doesn't necessarily determine the size of the subsequent La Nina, some climatologists are already saying that if you think this El Nino was bad, wait until you see his sister...
Simpson demonstrated his willingness to butt heads with those he disagrees with when he and National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg got into a public row over Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court, which Simpson supported...
...sister, Nina, is having a markedly different experience as a high school junior. Rick, a senior she knows mildly well, called and invited her to a movie. And not only did Rick pleasantly surprise Nina by paying for the tickets, he also insisted on footing the dinner bill at Pizzeria Uno. This boy is not afraid to be a gentleman...