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...Nino Last year's weather phenomenon wreaks havoc this year in the Atlantic. Hurricane Zelda, here you come...
...hard to say precisely when the shift to more frequent hurricanes began. It probably started with the exceptionally intense seasons of 1995 and 1996. The past year, to be sure, was exceptionally quiet, possibly due to the recent El Nino, which tends to suppress Atlantic hurricanes. But now things are hopping again. Just days before Bonnie hit, a tropical storm struck Texas and caused extensive flooding. Even as Bonnie ran out of steam, a new hurricane, Danielle, was barreling across the Atlantic behind her. Meanwhile, by the end of last week, hurricane forecasters had begun watching a new tropical disturbance...
...their Old Worlds into the wide-open promise of the New--Rohinton Mistry re-creating Bombay of the 1970s in his heartrending A Fine Balance, Anne Michaels piecing together fragments from the Holocaust in her luminous Fugitive Pieces, Michael Ondaatje staging a dance of cosmopolitans in The English Patient. Nino Ricci belongs very much in their company, Italian division. Though his protagonists live in clean, secular Toronto, they carry around the primal ties and cycles of guilt that belong to the other side of the globe and leave them in half shadow. They have left their past behind...
...with Gore's help -- at Kyoto. In more immediate terms, warmer weather also means more disease. The World Health Organization is already reporting a jump in the number of malaria cases, not to mention cholera and the deadly hantavirus. All the more reason for Gore to ride the El Nino bandwagon -- and for you to turn the fan up another notch...
...prognosis? Right now, a fading El Nino and a burgeoning La Nina appear to be locked in a struggle for dominance. As Kevin Trenberth, an NCAR climatologist, put it last week, "It's a war out there." But even if La Nina wins the battle, as many scientists now expect, she'll have a hard time overshadowing her more famous brother. In June, owing in part to El Nino and in part to some longer-term warming trends, global mean temperatures reached an all-time high. The first six months of 1998 have already entered the record books...