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Scientists note that something funny seems to be going on. Until recently, El Ninos came more or less periodically every two to seven years. But in the early 1990s several El Ninos appeared in a row, one right after another. Now, after dying down in 1995 and '96, El Nino is back. What is going on? scientists wonder. Are frequent El Ninos a signal of global warming caused by human tampering with the atmosphere? Or do they arise from random fluctuations in the natural cycle? There are as yet no good answers to these questions. Observes Michael Glantz...
Interns--the status-seeking professionals of the next cohort--are equally prone to this particular brand of prestige-by-association. You notice it at intern parties, which are usually held in tiny Georgetown row houses and feature cheap beer...
...Shawn Thompson. Baum said it was Cosby who suggested Thompson list her former boyfriend, Gerald Jackson, as the father on Autumn's birth certificate. (Cosby's attorney denies the allegation.) Baum traced years of "gifts" bestowed by Cosby, including trust funds and cars for both women and a front-row seat for Jackson at the 1991 taping of the final episode of The Cosby Show. Only after Jackson and her mother fought last December and Jackson began living in her car did Jackson call Cosby. "This is a woman who believes she's his daughter, calling her father for help...
...sordid caseload of juvenile violence in America. Youth are killed on urban streets every day. Yet this crime, cloaked sensationally in black-on-white, is quickly escalating into a small-town version of the O.J. Simpson case. During a preliminary hearing last week, as Nicole testified against a row of handcuffed suspects, one of her supporters yelled, "Hang 'em!" Meanwhile, the defendants' families are murmuring about conspiracies against their boys. Flint Mayor Woodrow Stanley is struggling to manage a crisis that threatens to further damage the city's image. "This incident is holding the entire city up to national ridicule...
...exchange for their performance, the Kroks were rewarded with front row seats for the record-breaking fireworks display and the departure of the royal ship Britannia carrying Prince Charles and Hong Kong's last British administrator, Gov. Chris Patten...