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...belly and tail. In addition, it has a pipe in the fuselage for launching sensor-loaded canisters known as dropwindsondes, sleek probes that take continuous readings of wind speeds, temperature, pressure and humidity as they parachute down. By combining the data obtained by multiple dropwindsondes, computer models can recon- struct the environment both inside and outside a hurricane, identifying conditions that feed or sap its strength or steer it in a particular direction. As a result, five-day hurricane-track forecasts are as accurate today as three-day forecasts were 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Eye Of Ivan | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Each generation not only recalls the tragedies but also tries to relive the experiences as if they were a personal occurence. By remembering in such a vivid way, we adopt the strength of the previous generation, and we are able to build and survive no matter what obstacles ob-struct our path...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Remembering Babi Yar | 10/11/1991 | See Source »

...release did not, however, in struct supervisors...

Author: By Michael J. Bishop and Shirley E. Wolman, S | Title: Pickets Close Down University Hall, Block Administrators From Building | 5/9/1970 | See Source »

...somewhere in Africa is a valid idea. Far-sighted ranchers are indeed beginning to breed wildlife as a partial answer to the world's dwindling food supply. Tors, a director of the World Wildlife Fund, obviously hoped to make a film that would entertain as well as in struct. This one does neither. Africa-Texas Style! has not enough of the real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient anthropomorphism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Livestock in Trade | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...demonstrate the rewards open to anyone who devotes himself to literature as an amateur (in the strict sense of the word), our imaginary Hum 6 student would no doubt be astonished, since it was precisely the inappropriateness of flat tone to exciting subject matter that struct him--a fledgling amateur--most sharply...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Defense of Reading | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

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