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...that walk: precarious, tippy-toed, tilted so far toward the ground that his knees seem almost like the brass casters underneath an antique armchair. Calvin Klein may be the image of a pumped-up nature boy, Yves Saint Laurent of a tropical flower that would wilt in direct sunlight. But Karl Lagerfeld looks just like, unmistakably like ... well, a fashion designer...
...group then set about examining how the iridium spread throughout the world, says Helen Michael, one of the Berkeley team's principle researchers. They reasoned that iridium-rich asteroids bombarded the earth, kicking up so much terrestrial and asteroidal debris into the atmosphere that it blocked sunlight from the earth for as long as several months. As temperatures plummeted, plants and animals died, leaving the current fossil record...
...trillion miles away, they clearly can effect the earth. If the solar system passed through the Oort cloud, a bombardment of comets would shake loose. Even if a small fraction of them made contact with the earth, the impact would blow enough debris into the atmosphere to cut off sunlight and cause a cosmic winter, ultimately extinguishing most of the life on the planet...
...every leaper, there are scores of San Franciscans who believe they have found the heavenly city. The reasons are unusually plain. There is the rich, Hopperesque sunlight. There is the cooling fog. And the sea breezes skittering up and down the hills. And the abounding good will. If San Francisco insists on delighting in itself, and even showing off - with the All-Star Game this week, the Democrats next and the Super Bowl come winter - 1984 is the year it deserves to be indulged...
...inland. Since San Francisco Bay is the only sea-level passage through Northern California's coastal mountain chain, the cool ocean air carrying the fog funnels into the city en route to the valley. The fog's swirls and twirls produce "microclimates," neighborhood-to-neighborhood variations in sunlight and temperature...