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Ciccarone didn't make the team and may have made a terrible prediction. Last week the nouveau riche Marlins took the National League championship from the vaunted Atlanta Braves to become, at only five years of age, the freshest team ever to make the World Series. Of course, they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISH ARE JUMPIN' | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

"It doesn't do you any great good to be able to say there's going to be an earthquake five seconds from now, or five years from now," Steim says, nothing that the most effective prediction would be to pin-point an earthquake within five days. "The goal of...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Most of earthquake prediction programs have been dismantled, Steim says.

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Seismology Device Yields More Accuracy | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

ANDREW MEIER, who reported on the latest efforts to repair the Mir space station, seems to have a nose for otherworldly troubles. He joined our Moscow bureau last November--just in time to cover the crash of Russia's unmanned Mars probe. Meier's prescient reporting, including a prediction last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Sep. 1, 1997 | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

This puts a lot of pressure on climate modelers, who, even as their forecasts improve, will surely couch them in caveats. As TV viewers know from nightly weather forecasts, an 80% chance of rain doesn't necessarily mean that they'll be unfurling their umbrellas. At an El Nino symposium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT EL NINO OF THE CENTURY? | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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