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Well, there is no evidence for this proposition either. If anything, points out William Nierenberg at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, global warming is supposed to be the cause of increasingly violent weather: stronger winds and more storms--hence the field day environmentalists had blaming last winter's storms on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL NINO AND US: HELL, HIGH WATER AND HYPE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

Coastal Peru is hardly the only area affected. El Nino alters winds and currents throughout the tropics, producing what climatologist Nicholas Graham of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls "a weird kind of sloshing." As the trade winds slacken, he explains, they give rise to slow-moving waves that surge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT EL NINO OF THE CENTURY? | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

To improve the current state of ENSO forecasting, Scripps and Lamont-Doherty have set up an international research institute dedicated to predicting medium-range swings in climate. Already, says climatologist Antonio Moura, the director, he and other scientists have begun to produce experimental forecasts of the probable impact of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT EL NINO OF THE CENTURY? | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Brock has taught religion, philosophy and women's studies at Scripps College, Valparaiso University and Stephens College and has published two books: Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power and Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States.

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Brock to Head Bunting Institute | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

Quick, name a euonym for REBECCA SEALFON, 13, of Brooklyn, N.Y. If you said "spelling master," you'd be right, and if you said "highly nervous and eccentric spelling master," you'd be even righter. Sealfon correctly spelled euonym (meaning: an appropriate name) to win the 1997 Scripps Howard National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 9, 1997 | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

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