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...plane landed in 40 degreesF weather to the sight of about 5,000 Clinton true believers at an airport rally. Many had been waiting since midnight, but they would have to endure another 28 minutes. Clinton had gone into the bathroom to change his shirt, said an aide, "and I think he fell asleep in there...
...PLANET MERCURY IS TRULY A HELLISH PLACE: IT is one-third as far from the sun as Earth, and its daytime temperatures can reach 430 degreesC (800 degreesF). The last thing scientists expected to find there was ice. But that is just what a new radar study of Mercury, reported in Science, has detected. Planetary scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and at Caltech aimed powerful radar beams at both of the planet's poles; the return signals bore the telltale signs of having bounced off a frozen surface. Like Earth and Mars, Mercury appears to have polar...
...methane have been wafting into the atmosphere, where they let the sun's rays in to warm the earth but keep excess heat from escaping back into space. Acting like the glass walls of a greenhouse, these gases have forced the planet's temperature up 0.8 degreesC (1.5 degreesF) over the past century or so. If the trend continues, temperatures could increase up to 5 degreesC (9 degreesF) within 50 years, raising the sea level, distorting weather patterns and causing widespread environmental disruption...
...forming a layer of droplets floating in the stratosphere, between 19 and 23 km (12 and 14 miles) above the surface. Scientists predicted that the droplets would act as a worldwide sun shield. Satellite measurements are proving they were right: the planet has cooled off about 0.5 degreesC (1 degreesF) since Pinatubo, erasing nearly a century's worth of rising temperatures. Unfortunately, the fallout will disappear in three to five years. After that, global warming should resume, as menacingly as ever...
...real, unofficial master of ceremonies of the Games would naturally be the weather. One balmy day of 55 degreesF warmth gave way to huge chunks of snow, falling relentlessly for almost 24 hours and leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place...