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...Ross Hoffman has his way, weather will someday submit to the whim of man instead of the other way around. Hoffman, a principal scientist at the technology research firm Atmospheric & Environmental Research, in Lexington, Mass., forecasts a sunny future in which, say, stampeding typhoons could be safely corralled and driven back out to sea. The key to weather control, says Hoffman, is understanding that even the fiercest tempest is a delicate creature. And by exploiting the sensitivity of weather to tiny changes in the environment, Hoffman has successfully tamed two hurricanes, thus saving dozens of lives and billions of dollars...
...near the epicenter." Weinstein stresses that even for Pacific Ocean tsunamis, it's not the job of the PTWC to tell other nations what to do. "They're supposed to have their own tsunami experts," he says, "people who make the decisions based on the information we provide." Australian scientists work with the same protocols. "We knew half an hour after the earthquake happened that there was the potential for damage," says Phil McFadden, chief scientist at Geoscience Australia, a government agency. But when a quake involves other countries, the Australian authorities merely pass the word on to the government...
...stir generated among climatologists by the AO makes Thompson, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, a tad uncomfortable. "I guess I have a humble tendency," he says, noting that in science, credit seldom belongs to one person alone. Thompson is broadening his focus to include other components of the climate system, notably the AO-like Antarctic Oscillation, whose behavior, he thinks, has been profoundly influenced by the leakage into the stratosphere of man-made compounds that destroy the ozone. Result: wind patterns are keeping the white continent's interior bitterly cold while allowing the outlying peninsula to warm...
...Arunachal Pradesh, India. The stocky, brown-haired primates, who have distinctively dark facial markings and short tails, are the first new macaques to be discovered since 1903. In recent years, three deer and goat species foreign to India have been discovered in the remote northeastern state, which conservation scientist M.D. Madhusudan calls the country's "last unknown frontier...
Peter and his colleagues find themselves in a moral dilemma over the use of force to deal with this threat. A military strike would lead to the death of an old friend, now a scientist in Pakistan’s nuclear program. Peter is left dirtied and disillusioned by the web of intrigue with which he has become involved, ending with all the aspects of his life being drawn into...