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...Gene Moore is scanning the cloudy skies, pulling on a cigarette, adjusting the treble on his stereo and aiming his blue Ford pickup truck toward western Oklahoma...
...Catching tornadoes sounds about as unlikely a sport as herding partridges on horseback. But when conditions are right, the NSSL sends out several vans packed with photographers, meteorologists and equipment, assorted airplanes and platoons of experts in hope of harvesting storm data. When people in Texas or Oklahoma or Kansas start running for their lives from a tornado, Moore and his colleagues are usually running full speed into...
Moore is 32 and still working on his degree in meteorology at Oklahoma University. He admits fieldwork appeals more to him than the written thesis that still separates him from a degree. But he is regarded as an expert contract worker and weather photographer, and when tornadic storms are pelting his truck with hail and threatening imminent catastrophe, Moore's language can be impressively scientific. He has caught up with and photographed more than 60 tornadoes in the past eight years, and he speaks expertly of anvils and shears, gust fronts and vortexes, lips and inflow bands...
What are the chances? Not bad, says Ketelsen. Decontrol of U.S. gas prices has made deep drilling worthwhile; there is a lot of gas 15,000 to 25,000 ft. below Louisiana, Oklahoma and probably New Mexico. Just last week, Tenneco struck gas in the previously discouraging Baltimore Canyon, 80 miles off the New Jersey shore. Farther in the future, Ketelsen has hopes for geopres-surized gas-squeezing out large amounts of methane that is mixed in with sea water in mammoth caverns along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas. The $3-per-bbl. tax credit, now proposed...
Despite the success stories, doctoring is often not enough. Composer Jule Styne believes that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...