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Inside a darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries...
...vortex,” Berry says...
...projecting our collective anxieties about that terrible day - and the days that led up to it - onto this 20-year-old. We need answers from him, some key to the mystery of al Qaeda's hatred. Some of us want to believe Walker was sucked into the vortex of a cult, because we need to believe it isn't quite so easy to turn against one's own country. Others insist Walker knew exactly what he was doing, because we are terrified of our own susceptibility to skillful propagandists...
...Washington's John M. Wallace. When the AO is in a positive phase--that is, pressure at the core of the region is low--a ring of wind that swirls around the North Pole increases in strength and keeps the frigid Arctic air from escaping southward out of the vortex. That means warmer than usual weather in most of the northern hemisphere, say researchers Thompson and Wallace, who coined the term Arctic Oscillation in 1998. The AO has been in a strong positive phase since late October, notes the National Weather Service (NWS), causing record-high temperatures nationwide. In fact...
...vomited. He felt it was important to show people that he was still standing, six years later. He confides it took him three years to break through his depression. Going to New York was, he insists, the best way for him to avoid getting sucked back into the vortex of grief. Two days after he returned home, he was at the Red Cross, asking when he could go back...