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...WEATHER: Why are hurricanes so attracted to Florida...
...good day for a funeral procession. Temperature: ninety-two at one p.m. and expected to rise to a hundred and ten before day's end." This steep a rise in the course of an afternoon is all but impossible, as anyone with a passing familiarity with the region's weather knows; anyway, it never gets that hot in Manila, not even close. It might seem a small point, but a book that seeks to speak with authority about the Philippines unnecessarily handicaps itself with a sloppy factual error in the first paragraph...
Summers opened his speech on a whimsical note: “I want to thank Dean Kirby for arranging this weather.” He continued in a jaunty manner, making quips about “browsing through thefacebook.com” to get to know the freshman class instead of reading their application essays. He added that he even tried to register his profile at thefacebook.com, but “my teenage daughters threatened to disown me if I did,” he said...
...didn’t take long for Texas Christian University to realize it was much more fun to be in New England than to weather Hurricane Frances...
...meeting in Munich, cold spells too often trigger heart attacks, especially in people with high blood pressure. Tracking more than 700 patients hospitalized over a two-year period, researchers found that for those with high blood pressure, heart-attack risk doubled when the mercury dropped below 39.2F. Cold weather constricts blood vessels and thickens blood, making clots more likely...