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...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...
...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...
...itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname was either a smudged version of squeegee--one of his first jobs as a darkroom assistant involved wiping down prints as they came from the developing bath--or he gained it because, like a Ouija board, he could predict where the news would happen and get there first. For a while he played violin accompaniment in theaters that showed silent films. "I loved playing on the emotions of the audience as they watched," he once wrote--an interesting admission, since Fellig would eventually give up the fiddle...
...Roller Coaster Cyberspace's No. 1 online service was one long busy signal last winter, leading critics to predict gleefully the pre-Web relic's demise. Well, if you bought AOL stock in, say, January, you would have nearly quadrupled your money by Thanksgiving. Could AOL chairman Steve Case be the new Michael Eisner...