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...might be in luck. This week, scientists in the area got one step closer to launching what could be the world's most advanced experiment in rainmaking - or, as it's known in weather circles, cloud seeding. It's the practice of injecting clouds with a foreign substance, usually silver iodide, salt or dry ice, to make the the cloud's water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years, with varying success. But the improvement of weather technology - and an enduring human interest...
...right weather-measuring tools have never been in the right program at the right time. Starting in November, they will be. A project staff of about 30 will use a recently installed CP2 Doppler radar to analyze what's happening in the regions' clouds before, during and after silver iodide "seeds" are sprayed into them from planes. Working in tandem with other ground radars and forecasting equipment, the technology will be able to take a 3-D read of the atmosphere similar to a body scan. Not only will this mean better information about when conditions are right to send...
Several other Harvard oarsmen competed at the Regatta in boats unaffiliated with the Crimson, including rising senior Breffny Morgan in the Silver Goblets and Nickalls’ Challenge Cup, and graduates Malcolm Howard ‘05 and Kip McDaniel ‘04 in the Canadian eight and four, respectively...
...Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, will be formally installed as the University's president on Oct. 12 in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. While the fall inauguration ceremonies are usually full of pomp and circumstance—the new president receives ancient symbols of office including two silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest college record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650—Sunday's official changing of the guard passed with little fanfare...
Debra DeLee, 52, who is divorced and the director of a nonprofit group in Washington, is so taken with her life--a gorgeous Capitol Hill town house, trips all over the world and a silver blue BMW roadster--that she's reluctant to change it even for the man of her dreams, Arnie Miller, 59, an executive recruiter who lives in Boston. "We talk about getting married, but this is so good right now," says DeLee, who ran the Democratic Convention in 1996. "Two minutes before he leaves, I think it's so hard to see him pick...