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...SAGA OF UNREQUITED LOVE A Student of Weather...
...rock our pedestal, well, it is all just "theories" anyway. We accept the fruits of science and rational, empirical exploration of the physical world without embracing these precepts in our bones, without having the stomach to accept what they tell us about ourselves. In short, we are "fair weather rationalists," ignoring science when desirable, and embracing it when it makes us happy. We will trust our life to science by boarding an ordinary jetliner, but when science tells us of our lowly and improbable origins, we just...
...modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...
...Construction hiring is also on the rise, accounting for a large portion of the new hiring in the report. That indicates that Americans are still buying homes at a good clip, and after a lot of bad weather in November and December, construction is back on the upswing...
...Almost 69 percent of the delays (309,482) were due to bad weather, especially thunderstorms in spring, summer and fall, the FAA said. Volume, the second-leading cause, accounted for 14 percent (63,048 delays), a 42.3 percent increase over the previous year. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total...