Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of its intricacy, the film basically follows the misfortunes of three Los Angeles cops as they trace the links among the murder of a corrupt colleague, a pioneer of sleazoid celebrity journalism (Danny DeVito, who brings huge comic relish to the role), a shadowy social climber (David Straithairn), who is enamored of underworld glamour, a call girl (an entrancing Kim Basinger) working for a service whose employees are obliged to imitate movie stars (she's the Veronica Lake look-alike), and, eventually, major players in the Los Angeles law-enforcement hierarchy...
...make Big Brother blush. She talks about how two years ago, a convicted child rapist working as a technician in a Boston hospital riffled through 1,000 computerized records looking for potential victims (and was caught when the father of a nine-year-old girl used caller ID to trace the call back to the hospital). How a banker on Maryland's state health commission pulled up a list of cancer patients, cross-checked it against the names of his bank's customers and revoked the loans of the matches. How Sara Lee bakeries planned to collaborate with Lovelace Health...
Scientists are only now beginning to trace this web of long-distance climatological connections--or teleconnections, as they are called--that links the ENSO cycle to major weather changes around the globe, such as shifts in the position of the jet streams. These are the high-altitude winds that serve as weather "tracks" in both the northern and southern hemispheres. A dip in the northern hemisphere's jet stream, for instance, can be expected to direct moisture-laden storms on a more southerly route over the U.S., while a nudge in the opposite direction will result in snow and rain...
...week's mass moon watch, the professionals needed the dilettantes badly. When Aldebaran slipped behind the moon, it never slipped completely. Rather, it just arced around a bit of horizon, seeming to flicker as it passed behind mountains and peeked over valleys. The pattern of flashes allows astronomers to trace the lunar profile, refining surveys taken by past space probes. Since observers on different parts of the earth would see the star obscured by different parts of the moon, however, the more sightings scientists collected, the more lunar real estate they would cover...
...J.P.L., the scientists did what scientists do in such signal moments, responding with both exultant overstatement and near-surreal understatement. "This is a spectacular day," said mission manager Richard Cook. Rover scientist Henry Moore agreed, after a fashion. "Nobody," he said, without a trace of obvious irony, "has ever driven a car on Mars before...