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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Broadly speaking, La Nina is the flip side of El Nino. But as the scientists at last week's workshop agreed, it is not just a mirror image. For one thing, La Ninas in general are never quite as cold as El Ninos are warm. Also, while El Ninos grow in strength with each degree of change in ocean temperature, La Ninas do not. The reason can be traced to the physics that links the atmosphere to the ocean. What allows El Nino to affect weather worldwide is the intrusion of unusually warm water into the eastern Pacific. As this...
...because it is so fanatically detailed, in part because the action is so compressed--all that panic in such a tight spot--in part because the horror is so long sustained, for more than 20 relentless minutes. "I wanted the audience in the arena, not sitting off to one side," says Spielberg. "I didn't want to make something it was easy to look away from...
...alone. Cendant, the result of last year's merger of HFS, a franchise company whose brands included Howard Johnson and Avis, and CUC, a kind of discount-shopping club, dazzled many a portfolio manager. After downplaying its accounting "irregularities" last April, the company last week revealed that the CUC side of the business had actually fabricated nearly $300 million in revenues over three years. The stock, which had rebounded to $25, quickly retreated to the high teens. It has since gone lower. And why shouldn't it? Most of the "earnings" that had jacked up the stock were simply fraudulent...
...their four-figure price tags will entice only cost-be-damned hobbyists. The rest of us will buy analog sets with built-in digital converters and wait for steep markdowns on those high-definition beauties. The network revolution is coming, though, and quickly. Think twice before choosing the wrong side...
...complicated these days. Bill Clinton's chief bodyguard, Larry Cockell, the special agent in charge of the presidential-protection division, took himself off the job last week after Chief Justice William Rehnquist ruled that Ken Starr could interrogate Cockell about what he has seen and heard at Clinton's side. Cockell could lose the SAIC job forever because putting him back on after all the publicity over his subpoena could be too disruptive to his sensitive assignment...