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Until VORTEX, the competing hypotheses about tornado formation could not be rigorously tested. The downdraft theory, for example, was bolstered by storm chasers' sightings. Observes Erik Rasmussen, field coordinator for VORTEX: "What storm chasers see first is a big dark cloud, then a bright spiral slicing into the base." The problem is that the flow of air within a big storm is so complex that what the eye sees cannot always be trusted. Hence the need for measurements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF TWISTERS | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...night Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed. Another told how he was led to the murder scene by Nicole's agitated dog, which had blood on its paws. A third spoke of seeing blood trailing down from Nicole Simpson's body. "I remember," said Bettina Rasmussen, "it was coming down like a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flesh and Blood | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...professor of nuclear engineering Norman Rasmussen, who is Sich's thesis advisor, said that his student's work is very significant...

Author: By Robert S. Lee, | Title: Chernobyl Accident Studied | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...Jane, coming of age during the Depression, took a bachelor's degree in physics and at 24 was about to go to graduate school at Columbia when she met and married Henry Reno, a 36-year-old police reporter for the Miami Herald. Tired of having his Danish surname, Rasmussen, mispronounced, he had picked his last name off a map of Nevada. The couple built a house out of cypress logs in the woods of rural Dade County; 43 years later, it survived Hurricane Andrew without losing more than a couple of shingles. In addition to the now legendary alligators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...million grant from the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation, a U.S. charitable organization, will make possible the development of faculty, curriculum, external communication and a venture fund for the new concentration...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Environment Concentration Approved by Vote of Faculty | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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