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...anticipation of Farm Night, when the ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher's mound. And Rocky, the brawny third baseman (Ken Olin), a con man in pinstripes who hankers to croon the national anthem to a salsa beat. And an aging slugger...
...replaced Richard Nixon when his presidency ended a year later under remarkably similar circumstances. Go Quietly or Else gives some intriguing clues as to what foreign policy would have been like under the first Greek-American president. That part of the world called North Vietnam would have been far wetter than under Nixon...
What caused the shift in winds? Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography -who had correctly predicted a wetter-than-normal winter for California-believes that it was somehow related to an increase of 1° to 2° C (2° to 4° F) in ocean surface temperatures between California and Hawaii and unusually cold temperatures in waters in the central Pacific north of Hawaii. Though Namias cannot precisely explain the mechanism, he says that as the air passes over the water and warms up, the newly acquired heat influences the direction of the jet stream...
...Sahel nations are involved in a scheme, dubbed Solar, that would allow nomads to continue to raise cattle on marginal Sahelian rangeland. But when it comes time for fattening before marketing, the time when the cattle make their greatest inroads on pastureland vegetation, they will be marched to the wetter and hardier lands in the south...
...keeps in shape with aquatic acrobatics, using plastic water wings. "I try to undulate like a sea anemone with them," she says. "When I wear them, I feel that I'm in a different world. It's kind of like floating around in outer space, only wetter...