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...does the Dublin, N.H. based publication derive its clairvoyant powers? From its founder’s “secret formula,” created according to his theory that “weather on Earth was influenced by sunspots, which are magnetic storms on the surface of the sun.” Along with weather predictions, the Almanac also provides helpful information on subjects like chickens, planting tables, and “zodiac secrets.” It all sounds a bit “out there,” but the Almanac insists its weather forecasts have...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Almanac Predicts DOOM (Damn lOng cOld Months) | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...seems that the one thing that Californians can’t seem to get enough of these days is not sun or waves, but ballot initiatives. Since the infamous Proposition 13 was passed in 1978, California went all the way through to Proposition 227, started back at a “new” Proposition 1 in 1998, and is now again up to Proposition 80 on the Nov. 8 ballot, with 33 more initiatives circulating or pending at the Attorney General’s Office. The blazing pace of initiatives is a clear indicator that something is gravely wrong...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, | Title: A Novel Proposition | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...Jones, the Shorenstein Center’s director. “He is among the most respected journalists in the United States,” Jones said. Carroll will draw on his five-year stint as editor of the Times, and previous experience as editor of the Baltimore Sun, to examine the ever-changing nature of the newspaper business. “My research project will be about the circumstances journalists are facing as the business of journalism goes through its current upheaval,” Carroll wrote in an e-mail. Upheaval is something familiar to Carroll. The Times...

Author: By William E. Johnston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ex-L.A. Times Editor To Be Fellow | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...massive fallen tree, wasn't persuaded. After the ice that she says she stockpiled before Wilma ran out, she hauled her family to "PODs" in a futile search for more-then waited five hours Thursday in Coral Springs to be told at 1 p.m. in the hot sun that FEMA would not have ice there as announced. "All I've learned about FEMA," said Williams, "is that it promises things it simply can't deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

...year-old parents feel caught between a rock and a hard place," said a woman who had come from New Jersey to Pompano Beach to care for them. "How many times a year can they deal with roofs being blown off and medications running out?" But then the sun comes out, the beaches calm down, the golf courses beckon and the perverse mask of paradise is on again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Just When You Thought It Was Safe... | 10/29/2005 | See Source »

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