Word: windes
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...echoes of On Gold Mountain begin midway through, after a dramatic reversal of fortune forces the sisters to leave Shanghai. They wind up in Los Angeles as the reluctant brides to sons of a Chinatown entrepreneur to whom their father owed a gambling debt, experiencing the racism that characterized Chinese emigrant life. And later, as the story moves past 1949, a connection to See's mystery novels emerges, in the form of a key character heading across the Pacific, leaving the door open for a sequel to take place in the modern People's Republic...
Watch TIME's video "The Truth About Wind Power...
...aquarium with a Bunsen burner below it," he says. "The heat causes a rising and sinking motion in the water. If you shift the position of the burner, you shift the motion of the water too." The El Niño Modokis also result in reduced vertical wind shear and therefore promote the creation of hurricanes. (When vertical wind shear is too strong, it can tear storms apart before they can fully form.) (Read "Behind the Midwest's Crazy Weather...
Borowitz, Andy • fantasy of that Bernie Madoff would wind up sharing a cell with O.J. Simpson, who would help him "search for the real swindlers...