Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Otto Coontz, the senior tutor's assistant,digitally morphed the faces of Mark and AimeeBessire together in an attempt to predict how thenew baby would look, according to Aimee Bessire.The photo montage has been on display in the AdamsHouse lobby. "I heard it's pretty scary," shesaid...
...same time, El Nino gives scientists a rare chance to study a phenomenon that transcends the short-term weather forecasts that are the bread and butter of meteorologists. In many ways, El Nino may be a dry run for the kind of large-scale weather effects some scientists predict will accompany the climate changes caused by global warming...
...Nino has showcased the progress climatologists have made over the past 15 years in understanding the earth's climate machine and the forces that drive it. In 1997, as soon as climate modelers spotted the area of warm water forming in the Pacific, they launched a coordinated effort to predict its effects on various regions of the world. Organized by the new International Research Institute for Climate Prediction--a joint venture of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and NOAA--these efforts have, in the main, been on target...
...discovery also gives a helpful glimpse at HIV's future. "HIV is very mutable," says Gorman. "If you know how much it's changed since 1959, you can better predict the rate of mutation into the future." Giving vaccine-hunting scientists a better idea of what, if anything, can keep up with a shape-shifting enemy...
...Paper editions of newspapers will also exist in 25 years. Despite its cost, people like the portability of paper; they enjoy reading their morning edition while eating breakfast and bringing it with them on their commute to work. Some predict that portable wireless gadgets that receive news feeds could act as competitive substitutes for newspapers, but portable radios and televisions have existed for years without hurting newspaper sales. Researchers in the MIT Media Lab were recently looking into the possibility of developing paper with ink that rearranges itself on the page upon receiving electronic signals--so, in essence, your paper...