Word: peru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrary to the widespread impression--and all those jokes about El No-Show--the El Nino of 1997-98 never really faltered. When you put it all together--forest fires in Indonesia, typhoons in Japan, torrential rains in East Africa, unusually powerful hurricanes in the Pacific, flash floods in Peru and Ecuador, freak snowstorms in Mexico--this El Nino has already unleashed more than its share of epic mayhem. But precisely because its reach is so long and its effects so broadly distributed around the globe, it has been difficult for most people to appreciate the full force...
...that high pressure in the eastern Pacific sends trade winds blowing to the West. Because these winds push water before them like an invisible plow, the sea's surface actually measures about a foot and a half higher around Indonesia and Australia than it does off the coast of Peru. When the pressure drops and trade winds slacken, the water sloshes back downhill, to the east...
...directly. So scientists use satellites to pick up the subtle undulations in sea level produced as the ripples pass by. That's how NASA oceanographer Anthony Busalacchi could see early last spring that swarms of undersea waves had started to head out across the Pacific toward the coast of Peru; he followed them as they slammed into the continental shelf, then split, heading sharply south toward Chile and north toward Alaska...
Similarly, the worst part of life in the Quad is all the people who say it is the best place in the world. If Harvard had assigned these people housing in a cave in Peru, they would still be cheerful about it. "I love the time I have to think on the 6,000-mile burro ride to my 9 a.m. class," they would say. They are the same people who, after reading this article, will march right up to me at dinner in the dining hall and tell me that there's no way the Quad could...
Warwick lived and worked in Lima, Peru from 1964 to 1966 where he was on assignment from the U.S. State Department to advise the government of Peru on the establishment of a survey research facility...