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Essentially, La Nina exaggerates the normal conditions of the Southern Oscillation. Because its last occurrence predated sophisticated satellite data gathering, the phenomenon is not very well understood. Scientists do know, however, that during a La Nina, easterly trade winds are stronger, the waters of the eastern Pacific off South America are colder and ocean temperatures in the western equatorial Pacific are warmer than normal. The result: coastal deserts in Peru and Chile become even drier than normal, and the subcontinent is inundated by heavier-than-usual rainfall and, often, flooding...
...residents. "I don't think they're ever going to be honest." Boise State University Professor Michael Blain, who has studied the health impact of the Idaho repository on residents of Clark County near the site, contends that cancer deaths and breast malignancies there have run about twice the normal rate...
Right-wingers attacked Danie Craven, head of the Rugby Board, for meeting with A.N.C. leaders. State President P.W. Botha also denounced the get- together. Yet some government leaders were privately pleased that the A.N.C. had dropped an antiapartheid line that declared, "There can be no normal sport in an abnormal society." The A.N.C., for its part, demonstrated a willingness to bargain, undermining the government's contention that the group is dedicated only to violence...
When the plague starts to abate and things begin to return to normal, the troupe starts to disintegrate. So does the play. One by one, members abandon the happy life of the wandering clown in pursuit of more earthly professions. And as they leave, the play grows more and more serious...
...didn't learn about the final strain until much later than normal," said Marshall Molloy, spokesperson for Morris Plains, N.J.-based ParkeDavis, another flu vaccine maker. He said the notification usually comes in February but didn't come until April this year...