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SENTENCED. LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, and ERIK MENENDEZ, 26, to life in prison without parole; for the 1989 murder of their wealthy parents; in Los Angeles...
...Reported by Ann Blackman with Elizabeth Dole and Erik Larson/New York
...make it any less dangerous or severe. "The drought is one of the worst on record," says U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist Ray Motha. Comparisons to the dry disasters of the 1930s strike most observers as inadequate. "We've looked at the stats back to 100 years ago," says Erik Ness, director of communications at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, "and there was more rain during the Dust Bowl than they are getting in Roosevelt County [on the state's eastern plains...
Until VORTEX, the competing hypotheses about tornado formation could not be rigorously tested. The downdraft theory, for example, was bolstered by storm chasers' sightings. Observes Erik Rasmussen, field coordinator for VORTEX: "What storm chasers see first is a big dark cloud, then a bright spiral slicing into the base." The problem is that the flow of air within a big storm is so complex that what the eye sees cannot always be trusted. Hence the need for measurements...
SENTENCED. ERIK MENENDEZ, 25, and brother LYLE MENENDEZ, 28, to life without parole for the murder of their parents; in Los Angeles...