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...industry's Southern-fried Paul Bunyan. After graduating from high school in Edmonton, Alta., Ebbers started out as a milkman but soon found that "delivering milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in physical education...
...Think of the farmer at harvest time, which it is soon enough for apples, and for wheat in warmer climes. He thinks of this harvest, of course, but of future harvests as well. And about how he must plant the ground for the coming season after the depression of winter, which in itself is not depressing, but part and parcel of the seasonal fluctuation...
...frequently at night, coughing and wheezing. No medication or other treatment seemed to help, and when O'Byrne was six a Dublin doctor explained to his parents that, for some unknown reason, cold, damp climates worsened the child's asthma. He advised them to leave Ireland for a dryer, warmer place...
Crompton left Cape Town with his family in 1964 to run Yale's Peabody Museum, joining other South African expatriates in fleeing "like rats leaving a sinking ship." He says that he found a warmer welcome in another nation of former British subjects...
...rechecked their data several times. The scientists also got a close-up look at the sun's lower-latitude trade winds, whose existence they had hitherto only suspected. The new probes not only confirmed these suspicions but also showed that the winds--actually, great bands of plasma slightly warmer than neighboring solar gases--dive deep into the solar interior, itself a mass of gases, then flow back toward the equator, creating a circular gyre reminiscent of Earth's great ocean currents, such as those that sweep the Atlantic and Pacific. "We used to think the inside...