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Officials in the chemistry department confirm that Altom was an excellent scientist...
These and the other secrets coaxed from Bonnie should be digested in several months and ready to aid meteorologists in time for next year's hurricane season. Says Robbie Hood, NASA's lead scientist on the hurricane project: "I'm hopeful that with these flights we have gathered data that in the future will save lives." What nobody will predict, however, is that hurricanes have run out of surprises...
...factor or just one of many, the trend toward more damaging hurricanes is clear. The reason was made explicit in a study done by Christopher Landsea, a research meteorologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hurricane Research Division in Miami, and Roger A. Pielke Jr., a social scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. They looked at the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history and then, says Pielke, posed the question: "If history repeats itself, and it certainly will, what might we expect?" To answer it, the researchers did not simply adjust the original damage...
DIED. FREDERICK REINES, 80, Nobel-prizewinning scientist known as the father of neutrino physics; in Orange, Calif. Undeterred by skeptics who doubted the invisible neutrino's existence, Reines persevered, often locking himself for hours in his lab, where he could be heard indulging his other great passion: singing opera...
...problematic laws have defenders. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the largest U.S. religious body favoring spiritual healing over medical attention, has long argued for them. Christian Science spokesman Gary Jones describes as "terrible" the prospect that public rage at the Oregon deaths might "stop the inquiry into more effective means of treatment" by spiritual means. Champions of repeal, of course, feel otherwise. A report in the April issue of the professional journal Pediatrics documented 140 child deaths "from religion-motivated medical neglect" between 1975 and 1995, attributed to 23 religious denominations in 34 states. Its co-author, Texas critical...