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The number is in, and it's big: $335.5 million. That's the Internet Advertising Bureau's final tally, released today, for advertising sold online in the final quarter of 1997. It brings the year's total to $907 million, up a hefty 240 percent from the previous year. But...
From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen to 442,000,000...
Something fundamental was happening to communism as well. Reagan's 1982 prediction that it was headed for "the ash heap of history" was lost in a rising sea of angst, captured in a 1983 made-for-TV movie, The Day After, that dramatized the clinical horrors of a nuclear exchange...
These subsurface waves explain more than the origin and propagation of El Ninos. They also explain how El Ninos end. When the waves first hit the South American coast, some reflect back, like sound bouncing off a wall. When the reflected waves reach Asia, they rebound again. But this double...
And then there's the North Atlantic oscillation, which makes El Nino's effect on the eastern U.S. as unpredictable as its influence over Brazil. This climate system, says Gerry Bell of the Climate Prediction Center, changes the position of the jet stream over the ocean. Until recently, the North...