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...exams-after-winter-break-tradition, the lack of real vacations. It is a block of time with no academic commitments besides those you impose upon yourself. Having successfully conquered the daily bustle of a Harvard semester, you are given a few weeks respite before being sucked into the vortex of exams...
...night, the contrast couldn't be greater. From the main Yard through the gates to Memorial Hall, a pedestrian is surrounded by the dark vortex, another rainy autumn night...
...west, and people smarter than I started leaving. Shortly after 2, a wild cloud formation appeared about half a mile to the west. Great white fingers developed from the left and right and flowed quickly toward a black, horizontally rolling cloud, which lifted to reveal a huge, whirling black vortex coming straight at me. I threw myself to the ground but couldn't help watching. The outside of the tornado was spinning so fast my eye couldn't follow it, but the inside was rotating almost lazily. I could see a thousand feet up inside it. Tiny fingers of lightning...
Rasmussen and his colleagues are just beginning to work their way through the VORTEX data, and they cannot yet say how well the different models are faring. Like all successful experiments, VORTEX has produced more questions than answers, and later this month chase teams will take to the road to try to answer some of them. For instance, how important is it that the tornadoes observed by VORTEX all hit areas that had been visited by storms earlier the same day? No one knows. "Right now," says University of Oklahoma researcher Jerry Straka, "VORTEX has confused the hell...
...first stated by 14th century philosopher William of Ockham. According to this principle, the theories most likely to prove true are those shorn of unnecessary embellishments. But, says Texas A&M meteorologist Louis Wicker, the process of tornado formation now looks more complicated than ever. In fact, the more VORTEX data sets he feeds into his computer models, the more convinced he is that there could be several ways to make a tornado. "Nature," he laughs, "has kicked us in the pants...