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...knows why these cycles occur. According to Bill Gray, a hurricane expert from Colorado State University, one reason may be a phenomenon known as the "Atlantic conveyor." The subject of much recent research, the conveyor is a gigantic oceanic flywheel that transports cold water from the seas off Iceland and Greenland in a majestic, slow current along the bottom of the ocean to Antarctica, where it surfaces several decades later and flows back north, absorbing heat as it passes the equator. The conveyor seems to have kicked into a faster gear lately, bringing warm equatorial water north before...
...husband is fighting a terrible battle with cancer. In June we went with friends to a Buffett concert in Milwaukee, Wis. We danced to Cheeseburger in Paradise and cried to "Mother Ocean." For a few hours, we were able to push away the nightmare. Thank you, Jimmy. EILEEN LUCAS Fontana...
...dead were 137 Americans. Beyond that, details get sketchy: The pilot reported smoke in the cockpit less than an hour after taking off from JFK; the plane dumped fuel over Novia Scotia and seemed to be preparing for an emergency landing at Halifax airport; it plunged into the ocean shortly after 9:30 p.m. EDT. Swissair quickly ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack...
...never taking into account how the U.S. abused Iran and its people through its support of the Shah. While I don't condone the hostage taking of 1979, it is up to the U.S. to apologize to Iran. Through our actions, we brought the ordeal on ourselves. MARK MCLAUGHLIN Ocean City...
Palm trees and pink stucco houses, flat blue cloudless skies and wide curving roads, the warm, salty smell of the ocean--home. Yes, I've returned to Southern California where the only bricks are adobe, where the weather is easy to predict and where the sights and sounds are comfortable and familiar...