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...also served on committees to determine the government’s policies in a wide range of fields. Meteorology and atmospheric science have been a major focus of these projects, including a report he helped produce called Fair Weather, describing the policy issues raised by the tensions between private weather services. He also advised the government to build a new version of the deep-sea submarine, Alvin, that discovered the wreck of the Titanic, and has helped formulate the direction of America’s future in space...
...winner, had 21 career starts. Smarty Jones, winner of the Derby and Preakness in 2004, logged only nine. Rank-and-file racehorses start early too but have harder careers. Winter used to be off-season for racing in the U.S., but now horses are trucked to courses where the weather is warmer and the wagering can continue. What's more, U.S. fans have grown to prefer shorter, faster races, so breeders produce animals suited to sprints. The faster you move, however, the harder you can fall...
Great White North's principals, Mike Kerkmann and Barbara Goldberg, started the company in 1993 by organizing a single event in Toronto. But Canada's weather limited the company's growth, so in 2001 they launched into the U.S. Now, they're involved in almost 50 festivals in Canada and the U.S.--by far the biggest commercial organizer in North America. "In Canada, it's a four- or five-month season at the most, but in Florida, we can operate year-round," says Kerkmann. For a start-up festival, his company arranges everything from the paddles to the practice sessions...
...Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters. For the rest of us, there's the spectacle of Patrick Stewart exploding into particles...
...found his comfort zone under the public spotlight. This time he wasn't even scared off, as he was last August, when photographers and cameramen rushed to the front of the papal plane to catch a glance of the Pope just before takeoff. He even talked about the weather: "It doesn't have to be warm, but we just hope it doesn't rain!" he told reporters...