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McCarthy said that unusually warm weather could be caused by cycles of oscillation in atmospheric pressure that bring in different storm patterns. Such cycles include the relatively short duration El Nino, or the long duration North Atlantic Oscillation and Pacific Decadel Oscillations...
When actual storm clouds loom on the horizon--terrorism, recession, government scandal--people long for a tempest in a teapot. That's just what the skating brouhaha provided, and it's what the Games provide as a whole. The fog of war, which we hear so much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism...
According to the Geneva Convention, classification as a non-POW is done by an independent third party, not on a whim. And if those who are detained are not pows, they should be charged with a specific crime. LEIF STORM Regina, Sask...
...Prime Number 250 million monarch butterflies were killed in a freak storm in Mexico, threatening the species, according to the World Wildlife Fund...
...invasion of Kuwait or Saudi Arabia and to keep up the pressure on Iraq. That is in line with the traditional basis for the strong relationship: the Saudis provide oil and the U.S. provides security. Some U.S. military men feel the Saudis "owe us" - a reference to Operation Desert Storm saving Saudi skin back in 1991. But the Saudis are fearful that a carte blanche could entangle the Kingdom in American wars against Iraq or even Iran, making popular opposition to the U.S. military presence a hot political issue - which, despite bin Laden's rhetoric, it has failed to become...