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Heavy rains and wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour hit Harvard yesterday as storms swept across the Eastern Seaboard, causing minor damage to one University building and inconveniencing people all over campus...
...Nino date back at least to the Spanish conquistadors. Old-timers can point to freak weather occurrences that put the Los Angeles floods to shame, like the 1928 storm that bombarded southwestern Nebraska with hailstones the size of grapefruit. Or the blizzard of 1888 that buried the Eastern Seaboard in snowdrifts the size of four-story buildings. "There is a record set somewhere every day," says Steve Zebiak, an atmospheric scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory...
...Great New England Hurricane, as it has since come to be known, began its trek up the Eastern seaboard in the third week of September 1938, just as the class of '42 was beginning its trek toward Harvard Yard...
These students--mostly from schools on the Eastern seaboard--say their campuses are at a high pitch of political debate...
...Joyce Maynard burst onto the literary scene, writing an autobiographical cover story for the New York Times Magazine titled "An 18- Year-Old Looks Back on Life." She parlayed her reputation as the most famous teenager on the Eastern Seaboard into a grownup career as a writer, producing capable and occasionally compelling chronicles of all things domestic. She has produced one novel and countless articles, and has been labeled -- not unfairly -- a women's writer. Now she has attempted a crime novel loosely based on a tabloid murder. The result is a whydunit...