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...meltdown was receding. Nevertheless, suspense as to the eventual outcome buttressed the claims of nuclear power's foes that all the wondrous fail-safe gadgets of modern technology had turned out to be just as fallible as the men who had designed and built them. Declared Nuclear Power Critic Ralph Nader: "This is the beginning of the end of nuclear power in this country...
...solve these and other puzzles, many scientists have moved beyond their computer models and headed into the field to collect real data. Last week Martin Ralph, a climatologist with NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., spent 25 hours in a P-3 "hurricane hunter" aircraft, flying into the teeth of a Pacific storm to measure temperature, wind and humidity. His goal: to figure out precisely how such storms build, move and interact with the coastline. Along with data from more than a dozen other NOAA experiments, Ralph's information will be fed back into the computer models...
...trying to unravel the detailed behavior of El Nino, Ralph and dozens of other researchers are furthering a scientific quest that began in the 1920s, when the British meteorologist Sir Gilbert Walker linked swings in atmospheric pressure over the Pacific to a disastrous failure of the Indian monsoon 50 years earlier. In the 1960s, UCLA meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes suggested that El Nino was governed by the same swings in atmospheric pressure...
...should be sending volunteers to work with the Cubans and help them lead normal lives. One may agree or not with the Pope's religious doctrine, but as a world leader John Paul II should no more be compared to Castro than Churchill should be compared to Mussolini. RALPH E. WALTER Munich...
...heads of state--lent the evening an illusion of invulnerability: that all is right in the world because all is right at this moment. There was the President, charming and being charmed by the bicoastal Masters of the Universe: Steven Spielberg, Barry Diller, Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Tom Hanks, Ralph Lauren, John F. Kennedy Jr., Tina Brown, Anna Wintour, Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings. Bad luck seemed as far away as it must have seemed in the ballroom of the Titanic. How can anything be wrong when Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John have come to sing...