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Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...
...constituencies to tend to as well. At the British Home in Sierra Madre, a retirement camp for expatriates, the Queen tramped from stucco bungalow to bungalow, pleasing the 38 residents almost unbearably. The oldest, Sybil Jones-Bateman, 97, gave Her Majesty a homemade tea cozy and a collectively sewn quilt for the infant Prince William...
...term elections tend to be a variegated quilt of unique local races, with different patterns discernible to different observers...
Gemayel's task will be gravely complicated by Lebanon's crazy-quilt of political and religious factionalism. Under the terms of a national covenant worked out in 1943 when Lebanon became independent from France, the Christians are the dominant political force in Parliament, although the Muslims are now thought to outnumber them (no census has been taken since 1932). Moreover, both the Christians and the Muslims are divided into feuding sects. After the civil war ended in 1976, the Phalangists sought the support of the Israelis, who saw them as a strong and friendly force that could stabilize...
...Beth Henley the person had not existed, Beth Henley the playwright might have invented her. Beneath that quiet exterior, there is the same flamboyance of spirit, the same belief that a crazy quilt of sweet dreams and common sense will somehow keep you warm through the night. Beth's father was a lawyer from Hazlehurst, Miss, (the scene of Crimes), her mother an amateur actress from down the road in Brookhaven (where Firecracker is set). "I was real shy when I was little," Henley says in a molasses drawl just slightly diluted by her years in Los Angeles...