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...TIME science correspondent Dick Thompson explains: "With the help of SOHO, scientists may now have a handle on when and where solar storms will occur. The end result is that satellites, power stations and astronauts can be better warned and protected." Budget concerns, however, may force NASA to pull the plug on the satellite. Thompson says they couldn't have picked a worse time to flick the switch: The sun is about to go into solar maximum, its most violent period ? and the most scientifically useful...
...ENSO cycle on selected regions. Thus rice, corn and bean farmers in northeast Brazil, say, could, if adequately forewarned, mitigate the effect of El Nino-associated droughts by planting rapidly maturing varieties of seed. The only hitch is that if they switch and a drought does not occur, their crop yields would be lower than normal...
...elephants elsewhere." Based on the two planets we know best, you could say there's a 50% chance of finding life on any given planet. Common sense and mathematics dictate that in a universe of trillions of star systems, the conditions for life could be rare and still occur millions of times. If it could happen here, we can be sure it has happened elsewhere. ANNIE GOTTLIEB New York City
...when you focus on the anomalies. Sometimes the disease isn't caught soon enough. Sometimes the spirochetes invade the nervous system, which is beyond the reach of most oral medications, in which case they must be flushed out with antibiotics that are administered intravenously. Everyone agrees that such complications occur. But some people think they are the exception, while others believe they are the rule...
...Rector, who follows hunger issues for the Heritage Foundation, says, "As long as you are providing aid without requiring anything in return, the demand of that aid will be inexhaustible." Nevertheless, at least one food-bank manager believes the increased demand is just part of the adjustment that must occur as welfare reform takes hold, a necessary transition to better times. Parke Hinman, who runs a food bank in Montgomery, Ala., has seen demand rise to include families with wage earners. But, he says, "if we can provide them food, we may be the boost they need to work themselves...