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After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, who should show up on the scene but studly policeman Nino Paventi (Peter Miller), a childhood friend of Angelo’s who ditched him in high school after Angelo became unpopular—an inappropriately lighthearted flashback scene shows Angelo as a freshman being taped to a locker against his will, his body forming the central “A” in a homophobic slur. So Nino is back in Angelo’s life, and after things become hot and heavy on a camping trip, they decide...
Among the most important factors affecting wind shear in the Atlantic, scientists have learned, are the swings between El Nino and La Nina that occur in the tropical Pacific. Best known for their impact on sea-surface temperatures--El Nino produces a pronounced warming along the equator, La Nina a distinct cooling--these swings also affect atmospheric patterns worldwide. El Nino, for example, promotes high-level westerlies that tear off the tops of Atlantic Ocean storms, while La Nina and La Nada--the name some have given to the neutral phase of the cycle that currently reigns--do the opposite...
...Ninos and La Ninas occur once every two to seven years, whereas hurricane activity in the Atlantic appears to oscillate on time scales that extend over 20 years or more. There are, however, indications that the El Nino cycle may be embedded in a longer-term oscillation, widely known as the PDO, or Pacific decadal oscillation. Some scientists are convinced that the PDO has shifted into a mode in which El Ninos, which dominated the 1980s and '90s, have become muted, allowing La Ninas and La Nadas and their attendant hurricanes to become more prominent...
...rise represents an increase in available fuel. Even more important, however, may be the impact that higher sea-surface temperatures have on wind patterns. That's because there are two ways to change wind shear. One is by reducing or amplifying high-level winds, which is what the El Nino cycle does. The other is by tinkering with the winds that take a low-level course. And the rise and fall of Atlantic sea-surface temperatures appear to correlate with both...
...elder Dante—named after his father, Guido Dante, who went by Dante—is a humble man and raised his three boys the same way. But he had to smile when two of his college buddies, Nino Moscardi and Dave Duhaine, found him at the Stadium and began the refrain, “Man, this is every dad’s dream...