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Current programs that reach women in the community include the Forum's support of the Advanced Women's Scholars, Friday at the Forum, and the Gilman speaker series...
Jamie A. Murray, a staff assistant at the Forum, said yesterday two of the Forum's programs will continue under the administration of other Radcliffe-affiliated organizations. The Schlesinger Library will handle the Gilman speaker series and the Alumni Association will coordinate the externship program, she said...
...skirt had stopped undulating: the curves in the prevailing winds flattened, and fewer chill breezes were blowing down from the north. High-level winds above the 40th parallel (near Philadelphia) were running at extra high speeds, while those to the south slackened. In effect, explains Donald Gilman, the service's chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather. For the Northeast as well as other parts of the Northern Hemisphere, Gilman's fence meant a December...
...Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., points out that any number of factors could influence air flows, including solar flares, clouds of dust, snow on the ground and even the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Adds the Weather Service's Gilman: "The westerlies behave very much like the 'average' man-there are always some abnormalities...
...sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict such a leap of civilization as the Renaissance. Ultimately, the process of decadence remains a mystery: Why has the tribe of Jews endured for so many centuries after the sophisticated culture of the Hittites disappeared? Richard Gilman can be granted his central point: "that 'decadence' is an unstable word and concept whose significations and weights continually change in response to shifts in morals, social, and cultural attitudes, and even technology." But the protean term is still tempting. It seems the one word that will...