Word: weather
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Melissa M. Lo ’04, one of her roommates, said Smith seemed happy with her classes when they spoke in a routine conversation about the weather the night before her death...
Swimmers credit a trip to Puerto Rico—the team’s tropical training site from Dec. 27 to Jan. 2—for helping to keep their hot streak going in the midst of arctic Cambridge weather...
...cotton just had their fifth highest annual price gain as measured by the Journal of Commerce--Economic Cycle Research Institute index, which began in 1949. How can individual investors profit from the rush? Analysts don't recommend esoteric futures and options, which are subject to vagaries like war and weather. A more prudent option, analysts say, is buying stock in companies that supply copper and tin, or an exchange-traded fund like the Materials Select Sector SPDR Trust, which rose 32% this year. --By Sean Gregory
Dialing a number to hear a weather forecast is old news. Several new programs allow cell-phone users to see the weather as well. AccuWeather and the Weather Channel (TWC) both offer hourly and extended forecasts with loads of weather-nerd stats, like barometric-pressure readings, as well as animated Doppler radar views. AccuWeather's zippy charts are easier to flip through; TWC makes users scroll and slog through data. Another new weather program is the eye-catching Weathernews, which displays a photograph of a city of your choosing along with its temperature and conditions. Hit the Down arrow...
...Controls, based in Milwaukee, Wis., and the world's biggest maker of auto parts, with 2003 sales of $23 billion. "It's also about quality of processes and purchasing leverage. You've got to have the attitude that every cost is variable." That attitude has allowed Johnson Controls to weather 15% increases in health-care costs and keep most of its car-battery plants...