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...TURBOPROP LUMBERS DOWN a runway at MacDill Air Force Base, rises awkwardly into the air and heads northwest from Tampa Bay over the Gulf of Mexico. For a couple of hours, it glides through an aerial fairyland, maneuvering around sun-struck clouds that resemble turreted castles. "This isn't so bad," I say to my seatmate, Miami-based meteorologist Joe Cione, who looks at me and laughs. It's about then that I realize the pilot has executed a sweeping U-turn and pointed the plane's nose in Hurricane Ivan's direction...
...great place to gather in these last moments of summer. The rhythm is as varied as our course catalog, a synergy of locals and intellectuals at thriving hotspots like Noch’s and the Garage. It is a place of high entropy, where disorder increases as the sun sets and the vibrant street acts emerge along Massachusetts Avenue...
...India Base. His family begs him to stay home and grow okra, lemons and potatoes on their farm, but Hadi loves being a soldier. "I won't give up my job because of a little terrorist," he says in his office as his soldiers march outside in the blazing sun. Three weeks after Hadi was tortured, his feet are still too swollen to fit into shoes, so he wears a pair of worn house slippers as he commands his men. Thick crimson scars on his legs are a constant reminder of the risk he takes every day, but Hadi...
...imitation of many Indian dwellings, the main entrance of the museum faces east, toward the rising sun--and also toward the nearby dome of the Capitol, headquarters of the Great White Fathers who repeatedly authorized the theft of Indian lands but who also provided about $120 million of the museum's $219 million price tag. (The remainder came from private funding, a third of it contributed by Indian tribes.) Inside and out there are passages in this building good enough to bear comparison to the suavely rippling walls of Alvar Aalto, the great Finnish apostle of forms derived from nature...
...scientist whose "dirty snowball" theory made it easier to track comets; in Cambridge, Mass. Whipple correctly proposed that the core of a comet consists of ice, ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide, and that its tail is formed by particles that break off from the mass as it approaches the sun. Over seven decades at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield...