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Sunspots tend to travel in pairs or groups of opposite polarity, like the ends of horseshoe magnets poking through the solar surface. During one eleven- year cycle, as the blemishes traverse the face of the sun in an east-west direction, the leading spots of each group in the northern hemisphere will generally have positive polarity, the trailing spots negative. In the southern hemisphere, the leading spots will be negative. During the next cycle, the hemisphere polarities will reverse. On average, then, 22 years will pass between solar maximums of the same sunspot polarity. This suggests to many astronomers that...
These sound waves, or seismic waves, cannot travel in space because there is no air or other medium to carry them. So when the waves reach the surface of the sun from below, they bounce back into the interior, where the greater heat bends them toward the surface again. The result, says astronomer Robert Noyes of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a "sun ringing like a bell, but not one that is being struck by a clapper. Rather, it is vibrating somewhat like a bell suspended in a sandstorm, continuously struck by tiny grains of sand...
...long ago, parents traveling with small children smuggled them into luxury hotels like illegal pets. Most did not dare venture into the dining rooms for fear of waiters who sneered, diners who scowled and menus with nothing resembling a hamburger in any language. But now the baby boomers, that bulky and insistent generation, are traveling with their youngsters in tow -- and once more transforming an industry that is intent on meeting their every need. The travel business will never be the same again...
Among the first to jump into this new market niche was perhaps the least likely: Club Med. Once the ultimate swinging adult summer camp, Club Med saw its customers growing up and recognized that many baby boomers did not want to have to choose between their travel fantasies and time with their children. By introducing Baby Clubs, Mini Clubs and children's programs at 40 locations worldwide, Club Med has become a leader in family vacations. Other luxury resorts have followed suit. The Village at Smugglers' Notch in Vermont even offers a money-back guarantee: "If your child for some...
...cater to families. By one estimate, as many as 10% of all business trips include children. At large medical and other professional conventions, up to a third of participants bring the family. In a highly competitive industry, hoteliers have found that children's services can help win loyal business travelers and lure future customers into the fold. "If we hook them now, we've got them later in life," says Hyatt Hotels president Darryl Hartley-Leonard. "This is going to become the way of life in the travel business -- offer a specialty product line for children, and you build brand...