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...DIED. RAJA RAMANNA, 79, scientist regarded as the father of India's nuclear-weapons program; in Bombay. Ramanna was head of Bombay's Bhabha Atomic Research Center in 1974 when the facility designed and detonated the country's first nuclear device in the Rajasthan desert; he was later appointed scientific adviser to the Defense Ministry and head of the Department of Atomic Energy. A skilled pianist and author of a book on music theory, he once reportedly declined an offer from Saddam Hussein to help Iraq develop its own nuclear program...
Predicting just how strong a hurricane will grow, however, remains more art than science, which is why my seatmate, NOAA scientist Joe Cione, has been seeding the Gulf with devices known as AXBTs (airborne expendable bathythermo- graphs), which measure the temperature of the water column. The chief weakness of hurricane- intensity forecasts, Cione believes, is the lack of information about the state of the ocean as a storm churns through. Warm water, after all, provides the fuel that supplies a hurricane with energy, and in Ivan's case, Cione is surprised to find that the water in this region...
...with Kander for a long Broadway run that started with Flora the Red Menace in 1965. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York. DIED. HARVEY WHEELER, 85, political scientist who in 1962 co-authored the bestselling Cold War novel Fail-Safe, about an accidental nuclear attack on the Soviet Union; in Carpinteria, California. The Texas native also authored political science books and did pioneering research on health care as well as on aging. DIED. RAYMOND MARCELLIN, 90, conservative French...
...Hurricane Ivan continued its savage sweep through the Caribbean, devastating the little island of Grenada and battering Jamaica, Stanley Goldenberg, a research meteorologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami, got ready to fly out over the frenzied ocean. As a scientist, Goldenberg was thrilled by Ivan's wild beauty. As a longtime resident of Dade County, he was worried about the welfare of his wife and kids...
DIED. BOB EVANS, 77, computer scientist who led the development of a new class of mainframe computers during the industry's fledgling days, transforming the basic architecture of computers and substantially reducing the cost of powerful computing; in Hillsborough, Calif. As an engineering manager at IBM, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in the new system, opening five plants and hiring 60,000 employees. The risky undertaking paid off, as the famous 360s--named after the number of degrees in a circle--helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after their introduction...