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...trade winds blowing to the West. Because these winds push water before them like an invisible plow, the sea's surface actually measures about a foot and a half higher around Indonesia and Australia than it does off the coast of Peru. When the pressure drops and trade winds slacken, the water sloshes back downhill, to the east...
Asian demand for American goods has started to slacken. And don't expect many Asian leaders to have the political stomach to open their own markets much further in this time of crisis, especially now that the U.S. Congress has rebuffed President Clinton on fast-track trade legislation...
Coastal Peru is hardly the only area affected. El Nino alters winds and currents throughout the tropics, producing what climatologist Nicholas Graham of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography calls "a weird kind of sloshing." As the trade winds slacken, he explains, they give rise to slow-moving waves that surge from west to east and exert downward pressure on the thermocline. This is the boundary layer of chilly water that separates the much colder water in the ocean depths from the sun-warmed water near the surface. Normally, the eastern Pacific's thermocline lies at a shallow depth and thus...
...maturation means that gamemakers don't need proprietary networks to get customers online. Even the mighty home-video-game industry, which should get a much needed kick in the pants this week with the release of the hotly anticipated Nintendo 64 machine, has seen its sales figures slacken dramatically in recent years as its target audience graduated from Mario Bros. to modems and PCs. The Net, says Glenn Crocker, vice president of engineering at software developer Chaco Communications, "gives us a cheap way to connect a national audience...
...they suspect, such exercise enhances the sense of taste, that could be a great boon for the elderly. A common problem of aging is a lessening sense of taste, which makes eating less attractive and can lead to unwanted weight loss. More dangerously, the thirst sensation also appears to slacken. When seniors forget to drink, dehydration can set in without their being aware of it, inducing a drop in blood volume that causes a greater sensitivity to heat changes. The result can be as dramatic as the unexpected deaths among the aged that attended Chicago's heat wave last summer...