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...scene, by contrast, from real life: One recent evening on West 68th Street in Manhattan, the alarm on a little red sports car goes off. Who knows what started it? The passing thunderstorm, a bump from a car pulling into the % parking space ahead, someone leaning against the fender? The plates on the wailing car indicate that it comes from Long Island. After 15 or 20 minutes someone puts a note on the windshield: GO BACK TO LONG ISLAND WHERE YOU BELONG AND LEAVE YOUR ALARM THERE. Two hours pass; alarm still wailing. Someone else scrawls some impolite advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thing That Screams Wolf | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

Today: partly sunny windy and mild. A chance of a shower by evening. High 70 to 75. South wind 15 to 25 mph. Tonight: showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Low in the mid-50s. Tomorrow: cloudy with the chance of showers early, then partial clearing by noon. High near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WEATHER | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

Today: Rain likely, chance of a thunderstorm. High 50 to 55. Chance of rain 60 percent. Wind east 10 to 15 mph. Tonight: Foggy with occasional rain and drizzle. Temperature remaining around 50. Chance of rain 80 percent. Tomorrow: Continued gray skies with coastal drizzle and fog likely. High...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weather | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Atlanta is trying again. Nearly 5,000 boosters braved a thunderstorm last week to celebrate the reopening of Underground after a 2 1/2-year renovation that cost $142 million, including $85 million in city-backed bonds. The complex, decorated in turn-of-the-century style, will eventually boast 140 stores, restaurants and nightclubs -- as well as dozens of security guards meant to reassure the suburbanites and tourists who are essential to the downtown's revitalization. Critics charge that the city's money could be better spent elsewhere. Protesters disrupted Mayor Andrew Young's opening address by chanting "Atlanta keeps the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlanta - -Underground, Off the Ground | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...into the blood, an insight that cut three years off the usual eight- year research-and-development cycle for a new drug. By displaying weather data on a computer, researchers at the University of Illinois have been able to capture the exact moment when a tornado forms within a thunderstorm, a breakthrough that if incorporated into an early-warning system, could one day save lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Through the 3-D Looking Glass | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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