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...terrible, two-decade drought that plagued the African Sahel until lately also cut down on tropical storms, says Gray. Strong winds that accompanied this prolonged dry spell swept rain clouds away from the Sahel and sheared the tops off storm systems that might eventually have become hurricanes. Now that the drought has eased, these storms are more likely to persist and grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HURRICANE ONSLAUGHT | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...Some of them don't know how to spell it," he answers...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Summer Science Allows Harvard Students, Cambridge Kids to Play With Slime and Sound | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

BRITISH ACTOR HUGH GRANT NEEDN'T fret about being the naughty boy of the week [People, July 10]. The spectacle of an African-American hooker caught in a sex act with a wealthy, white rising star is a Hollywood press agent's dream come true. The bottom line: "Please spell my name correctly, H-U-G-H G-R-A-N-T.'' FRED GERHAUSER San Carlos, California Via America Online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 31, 1995 | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

This time, they said, they would put an end to vacillation and to pinprick bombing. "What we must do today," Prime Minister John Major told the 16-nation emergency conference on Bosnia in London last week, "is spell out in unmistakable terms the consequences of further attacks" by Bosnian Serbs on U.N.-declared "safe areas." "We must mean what we say and be determined to carry out what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOMBS AND BLUSTER | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...America's 49 million physically and mentally disabled people with access to public areas and workplaces, the larger spirit of the law was to puncture the stifling isolation of the disabled and draw them into the mainstream of civic life. Noble in design but threadbare on specific guidelines that spell out what improvements are required in places as varied as public courthouses, private business offices and local bowling alleys, the ADA has proved a mixed blessing for the disabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBLE AIMS, MIXED RESULTS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

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