Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this made the U.S. supercomputer effort even more dependent on one man: Seymour Cray. At 63, Cray is one of the most enigmatic figures in computer science. A restless, rugged individualist of legendary idiosyncrasy (for many years he made a point of building a new sailboat every winter and, inexplicably, burning it in the fall), he has devoted his professional life, first at Control Data and later with his own firm, to building the world's most powerful computers. His track record: an unequaled series of five major computer designs dating back to 1960, each for what would...
...last vision of Yellowstone most people carried into winter was far less bucolic. It was an image of immense walls of flame thundering across the canopy of lodgepole pine forests, leaping entire ridgelines in a searing specter of natural destruction that mocked man's effort to contain it. The fires of 1988 appeared to be an environmental Armageddon. "If you looked at the fire storms, you would have thought that nothing would have survived," says Ed Lewis, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, an ecological watchdog group...
Though the fiery summer of 1988 scared away tourists, it had relatively little impact on Yellowstone's animals, compared with the normal rigors of winter. The fires killed only 335 of the 31,000-member elk herd. But a harsh winter eliminated almost 5,000 more, and their carcasses lie in various states of decomposition throughout the park...
Several people told me that I should "move up" after covering the same teams for a couple of years. But like I always told them, I think volleyball is the best beat in the fall, squash in the winter and tennis in the spring. This may sound conceited, but I believe I was covering the best beats...
There's no mayor, no water system, not even a stoplight. But each winter, tiny Quartzsite, Ariz., grows to absorb 200,000 people, only to shrink again come spring. What attracts the snowbirds...