Word: weather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans emphasized the superiority of their technical-intelligence gathering, from both U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union and early satellite surveillance disguised as a weather-monitoring program. The Russians asserted a huge advantage in human intelligence, with Kalugin claiming that 200 Russian agents had penetrated virtually all branches of the U.S. government by 1948. As one ex-CIA agent joked, all those conspiracy theories of the 1950s turned out to be true after...
...ones that battered the Eastern seaboard in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Thanks to an unlucky confluence of events--warm Atlantic waters, brisk trade winds and some strange doings in the eastern Pacific--we're on the cusp of what could be an extended spell of very heavy weather...
...MADELEINE NASH has spent the past 15 years at TIME chasing hurricanes and other science stories. This week the senior correspondent, based in Chicago, reveals why Hurricane Floyd, a huge storm at its height, will pale compared with those that lie ahead. Climate and weather are of particular interest to Nash, who is currently writing a book on those subjects. "Hurricanes," she says, "are one of the great forces of nature. We keep trying to bend them to our will, and we keep trying to make them conform to our own preconceived ideas about how nature should behave. But nature...
...many rewards of reading Chang-rae Lee's new novel, A Gesture Life (Riverhead Books; 288 pages; $23.95), is its reticence, a lost virtue at a time when fictional characters (to say nothing of strangers on airplanes) share intimacies as routinely as weather reports...
...General Dwight Eisenhower was prepared to invade Normandy on June 5, but when his weather officer predicted storms over the English Channel, Ike postponed D-day for 24 hours...