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...fires. He argues that the heat from the inferno has created a new high-pressure system, which might push the monsoon line farther south than its normal seasonal position. Furthermore, El-Baz fears that particles in the air might seed the clouds so that rain falls over the Indian Ocean rather than the adjacent land...
...dynamics of the monsoon are so variable and complicated that even if the rains fail this summer, it will be difficult to prove that the oil fires caused the trouble. On the basis of fluctuations in Pacific Ocean temperatures, Jagadish Shukla, director of the University of Maryland's Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions, is predicting that this year's rains will be less than normal. Shukla and others wonder whether the heat from the fires is sufficient to affect a system as large as the monsoon. El-Baz readily admits that his theory is riddled with unknowns...
...500th anniversary of 1492 is approaching. Remember 1492? "In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-Two/ Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Discovery and exploration. Bolivar and Jefferson. Liberty and democracy. The last best hope...
...stuff of legends, pulp novels and late-night reruns of the Twilight Zone: a 140,000-sq.-mi. stretch of the Atlantic Ocean that seems to swallow unfortunate voyagers like a space-time warp. During the past 45 years, more than 100 ships and planes have disappeared in the triangular region -- roughly bounded by Bermuda, Southern Florida and the Greater Antilles -- often in circumstances as murky and mysterious as the storm-tossed sea itself...
...journal, also of a voyage to the New World ("Mr. Heartbreak" is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...