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...fallout from Spitzer's assault has been swift. Fund-research firm Morningstar--the 800-lb. gorilla of independent fund analysis--took the unprecedented step of warning investors to avoid the four fund families at the eye of Spitzer's storm--Strong, Bank of America's Nations Funds, Bank One's One Group, and most Janus offerings (except for its Mid Cap Value, Small Cap Value and Risk-Managed Stock funds, which are run by outside managers). "The firms put their own profitability ahead of shareholders'," says Kunal Kapoor, Morningstar's associate director of fund research. "Until we see changes...
...tattered remains of Hurricane Isabel blew off over Canada last week, the once formidable Category 5 storm left in its wake not only flooded streets, downed power lines and grieving families but also a sense of rising menace. That's because a growing number of scientists believe that conditions favorable for brewing more and even bigger hurricanes in the Atlantic locked into place about eight years ago and will probably persist for at least a decade and maybe longer. "We're not talking about a minor little increase," says Stanley Goldenberg, a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
...decreasing vertical wind shear, the difference in wind speed and direction at different levels of the atmosphere. Too much shear can disrupt the structure of a hurricane's eyewall, whereas more uniform winds allow a hurricane to grow to maximum potential. When Isabel briefly exploded into a Category 5 storm, wind shear was low, and its eyewall formed a nearly flawless cone of clouds some 60,000 ft. high. In the eyewall itself, winds whirled at an epic 230 m.p.h. "When we got into the eye," says Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Michael Montgomery, who flew through the eerie stillness...
Among the persistent mysteries is why hurricanes like Isabel start out big and then diminish while others, like Andrew in 1992 and Camille in 1969, get stronger just before they make landfall. Only three Category 5 storms have hit the U.S. over the past 100 years--Andrew, Camille and the Labor Day storm of 1935--and Isabel was not one of them. But a fast-fading Category 2 hurricane--which is what Isabel was as it slammed into North Carolina and Virginia--is still a formidable force...
When it ended, Lightning Bolt seemed to vanish. The noise was gone and the magic disappeared as the audience lost its collective power. The quiet after the storm was alarming...