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...year changes in wind patterns and ocean currents that lead to phenomena like the Pacific's El Nino can not only devastate populations of commercially valuable fish but also trigger dramatic shifts in weather patterns. Oceanic fluctuations over much longer time scales, combined with major currents like the Gulf Stream, may start (and bring to an end) planet-wide climatic changes like the Ice Ages...
...Paul Bunyan. Written to a libretto by W.H. Auden shortly after the composer and poet came to America as pacifists in the late 1930s, the work was conceived as a comic-populist valentine to their new country, one that would be suitable for school productions. Singable it is: the stream of songs and choruses exploits and gently parodies everything from American folksiness to Broadway jazziness, from Italian opera to Victorian ballads...
...them over, occasionally barking, "You, out." Serbs hauled the Muslim men of military age onto other vehicles. The women, children and older men were driven to Tuzla, a larger safe area 35 miles away. When they reached Muslim lines and staggered from the buses, they burst out with a stream of tales of terror and brutality...
...husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that Suu Kyi, 50, was free after 2,190 days of incarceration, it was a constant stream of well -- wishers, not guards, that kept her in the bungalow. Upon learning she was being released, Suu Kyi told TIME, "I said to myself, 'Well, I'm free.' But then I have always felt free...
...something of a shock to see a capacity crowd of 41,948 stream into brand-new Jacobs Field last Wednesday evening to root, root, root for the best team in baseball, the Cleveland Indians. The press box was crowded; Manny Ramirez stood where George Vukovich once stood; and people were grinning like, well, Chief Wahoo. The fanatic with the drum, a computer programmer named John Adams, was still banging away in the back row of the bleachers, but he couldn't be heard through all the crowd noise. "Cleveland," said Indians pitcher Dennis Martinez, "is the baseball place...