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...stretch of ocean. Consequently, climate experts no longer refer to El Nino alone but speak of the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Rather like a pendulum, the ENSO cycle swings between an El Nino state and its opposite, a cold-water state known as La Nina (the girl) or El Viejo (the old man). Taken as a whole, ENSO is a powerful driver of global weather patterns. In fact, say scientists, it is, besides seasonal variations caused by the earth's travels around the sun, the major cause of month-to-month variation in climate...
...like Netscape Communications or Pixar Animation that has enriched its owners almost beyond counting, there are dozens of losers that have dashed their founders' dreams. Smith Micro Software, for example, jumped from $12 a share to $14.50 a share amid the frenzy of the IPO market when the Aliso Viejo, California, maker of software for modems went public last Sept. 18. Since then the stock has cooled to about $7.25 a share, leaving founders William and Rhonda Smith to face the wrath of shareholders who sued the company in December over the slump in price. Investors who initially paid...
YOUR CHOICE OF GINGRICH IS A SLAP IN the face to many Americans. It is a disgrace to name this social wimp and babbling salesman instead of one of the many who made real and significant contributions that benefited America and the world during 1995. ED TOWERS Mission Viejo, California...
...regional security and accepting U.S. leadership, without the condition of committing resources only if the U.S. intervenes. U.S. leadership must be more decisive and work to instill foreign policy confidence if NATO is to be an effective alliance and successful in Bosnia. JOHN F. STAMPFLI Mission Viejo, California...
...says, one reason he decided to come back was that "I missed the feeling of being nervous, of having to go out there and perform." At week's end, in a $30,000 match race in the 50-m fly, he lost to freestyle sprinter Tom Jager at Mission Viejo, Calif...