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Jeanne's name was put on the hurricane list more than 25 years ago by her longtime friend and weather forecaster Gilbert Clark. Clark, 81, who worked at the National Hurricane Center from 1955 to 1990, was in charge of naming the storms until 1979. "I was running out of names, so I threw her name in there," says Clark. He also put in the names of Jeanne's children Diana and Beryl...
...Bean": a 66-ft.-long, 110-ton quicksilver blob in Millennium Park, the new $475 million addition to the city's famous museum row. The reflective stainless-steel sculpture (which its British creator, Anish Kapoor, calls Cloud Gate) distorts North Michigan Avenue like a fun-house mirror. Weather permitting, you can check out architect Frank Gehry's dynamic bandshell at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion. (If you need to check email, the north and south ends of the park carry wifi Internet signals...
...entertainment system. Despite concerns about driver distraction, the satellite-radio service Sirius has plans to stream video to backseats in 2006 models, starting with cartoons and music videos. Eventually, cars may be networked so they can communicate with one another about roadside information, traffic updates and weather conditions while in transit. The manufacturer might even electronically transmit information to your car about, say, a problem with misfiring cylinders to alert you before you break down. And when you pass that hydrogen filling station, you might even get a digital coupon for a refill. --By Daren Fonda. With reporting by Joseph...
After graduation, he will do just that. Salvatierra is planning on moving to Atlanta, “back down South, and out of the cold North Eastern climate—little warmer weather, little warmer people.” He hopes the Peach State’s capital will work the same magic for him and his partner in rhyme, Jeff Hack ’03, as it did for singer/songwriter John Mayer, an artist who Salvatierra considers “a fabulous writer.” Atlanta is a strategic destination in that...
...three morning races were almost questionable as to whether they were fair tests of skill,” said junior Sloan Devlin. “It’s very hard to be consistent in those weather conditions...